Barbarian tides : the migration age and the later Roman Empire
"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 Barbarians and Romans, Walter Goffart dismantles this grand narrative, shaking the barbarians of late antiquity out of this "Germanic" setting and reimagining the role of foreigners in the Later Roman Empire."
Print Book, English, ©2006
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa., ©2006
History
x, 372 pages ; 25 cm
9780812239393, 9780812221053, 0812239393, 0812221052
63116458
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 accommodation" revisited
None of them were Germans : northern barbarians in late antiquity
Conclusion : the long simplification of late antiquity