Barbarian Tides : : The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire / / Walter Goffart.

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• VerfasserIn: Goffart, Walter,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

The Migration Age is still envisioned as an onrush of expansionary "Germans" pouring unwanted into the Roman Empire and subjecting it to pressures so great that its western parts collapsed under the weight. Further developing the themes set forth in his classic Barbarians and Romans, Walte...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. A Clarification: The Three Meanings of "Migration Age"
• Chapter 2. A Recipe on Trial: "The Germans Overthrow the Roman Empire"
• Chapter 3. An Entrenched Myth of Origins: The Germans before Germany
• Chapter 4. Jordanes's Getica and the Disputed Authenticity of Gothic Origins from Scandinavia
• Chapter 5. The Great Rhine Crossing, A.D. 400-420, a Case of Barbarian Migration
• Chapter 6. The "Techniques of Accommodation" Revisited
• Chapter 7. None of Them Were Germans: Northern Barbarians in Late Antiquity
• Chapter 8. Conclusion: The Long Simplification of Late Antiquity
• Appendix 1: Alexander Demandt on the Role of the Germans in the End of the Roman Empire
• Appendix 2: Chronicle Evidence for the Burgundian Settlement
• Appendix 3: The Meaning of agri cum mancipiis in the Burgundian Kingdom
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography
• Index