Barbarian tides : the migration age and the later Roman Empire

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Bibliographic Details
OCLC:63116458
Main Author: Goffart, Walter A.
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
Series:Middle Ages series.
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Monograph

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Table of Contents:
  • A clarification : the three meanings of "Migration Age"
  • A recipe on trial : "the Germans overthrow the Roman Empire"
  • An entrenched myth of origins : the Germans before Germany
  • Jordanes's "Getica" and the disputed authenticity of Gothic origins from Scandinavia
  • The great Rhine crossing, A.D. 400-420, a case of barbarian migration
  • The "techniques of accomodation" revisited
  • None of them were Germans : northern barbarians in late antiquity - Conclusion : the long simplification of late antiquity.
  • A clarification : the three meanings of "Migration Age"
  • A recipe on trial : "the Germans overthrow the Roman Empire"
  • An entrenched myth of origins : the Germans before Germany
  • Jordane's "Getica" and the disputed authenticity of Gothic origins from Scandinavia
  • The great Rhine crossing, A.D. 400-420, a case of barbarian migration
  • The "techniques of accomodation" revisited
  • None of them were Germans : northern barbarians in late antiquity - Conclusion : the long simplification of late antiquity.