History of the GothsIncorporating exciting new material that has come to light since the last German edition of 1980, Herwig Wolfram places Gothic history within its proper context of late Roman society and institutions. He demonstrates that the barbarian world of the Goths was both a creation of and an essential element of the late Roman Empire. |
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Contents
The Names | 19 |
Visigoths and Ostrogoths as Western Goths and Eastern Goths | 25 |
The Formation of the Gothic Tribes before | 36 |
The Trek to the Black Sea | 42 |
The TervingianVesian Confederation at the Danube | 57 |
Ulfilas and the Beginning of the Conversion of the Goths | 75 |
The Ostrogothic Greutungi until the Invasion of the Huns | 85 |
the Gutthiuda | 96 |
The Settlement of the Visigoths | 222 |
Ethnic | 231 |
The New Ostrogoths | 247 |
The Ostrogothic Kingdom in Pannonia 456457473 | 258 |
The Ostrogoths in the Balkans 473488 | 268 |
Theodorics Battle for Italy 488493 | 278 |
King of the Goths and Italians 493526 | 284 |
Theodorics Rule in Theory and Practice | 288 |
The Fortyyear Migration and the Formation of | 117 |
Theodosius and the Settlement of the Goths in Thrace | 131 |
The Balkan Campaigns of 395401 | 139 |
The Goths in the Western Empire 401418 | 150 |
The Kingdom of Toulouse 418 to 507 | 172 |
The Visigothic Superpower 466507 | 181 |
The Legal and Ecclesiastical Policies of Euric and Alaric II | 193 |
The King and the Royal Clan | 202 |
Its Functions and Functionaries | 211 |
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