Cover Image

Barbarian tides : the migration age and the later Roman Empire /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goffart, Walter, 1934-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Migrations of nations.
Rome > History > Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries.
Europe > History > 392-814.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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
  • 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.
  • 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.