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Barbarian tides : the migration age and the later Roman Empire
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Barbarian tides : the migration age and the later Roman Empire / Walter Goffart.
ISBN
0812239393 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
Physical Description
x, 372 p. ; 25 cm.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 25, 2006
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-364) and index.
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.
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