Barbarian tides [electronic resource] : the migration age and the later Roman Empire / Walter Goffart.

By: Goffart, Walter AContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Middle Ages seriesPublication details: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006Description: x, 372 pISBN: 9780812200287 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Migrations of nations | Europe -- History -- 392-814 | Rome -- History -- Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuriesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 937/.09 LOC classification: D135 | .G65 2006Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-364) and index.

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.

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