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Barbarians, maps, and historiography : studies on the early medieval West
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Barbarians, maps, and historiography : studies on the early medieval West / Walter Goffart.
ISBN
9780754659846 (hbk.)
0754659844 (hbk.)
Published
Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
Physical Description
viii, 331 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Chiefly in English; one chapter in French.
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Language
English; French
Added to Catalog
June 24, 2009
Series
Variorum collected studies series ; CS916
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-311) and index.
Contents
Two notes on Germanic antiquity today
What's wrong with the map of barbarian invasions?
The map of barbarian invasions: a preliminary report
The map of barbarian invasions: a longer look
Does the Vita S. Severini have an underside?
Conspicuously absent: martial heroism in the Histories of Gregory of Tours and its likes
Bede's Uera lex historiae explained
The Historia Ecclesiastica: Bede's agenda and ours
Bede's History in a harsher climate
Paul the Deacon's Gesta Episcoporum Mettensium and the early design of Charlemagne's succession
Charters earlier than 800 from French collections
Le problème des Translationes S. Liborii
The first venture into medieval geography: Lambarde's map of the Saxon heptarchy (1568)
Hetware and Hugas: datable anachronisms in Beowulf
The name 'Meringovian' and the dating of Beowulf
Christian pessimism on the walls of the Vatican Galleria delle carte geografiche.
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