Barbarian tides [electronic resource] : the migration age and the later Roman Empire / Walter Goffart.
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Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2006.
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Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
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.