Barbarian tides the migration age and the later Roman Empire / [electronic resource] :
Walter Goffart.
- Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
- x, 372 p.
- The Middle Ages series .
- Middle Ages series. .
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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