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Barbarian Tides : the Migra...
Barbarian Tides radically subverts the grand narrative of a "Germanic" migration and reinvents the role of barbarians in the Later Roman Empire. Goffart sets out how the fragmented foreign peoples once living on the edges of the Empire participated with the Romans in the larger stirrings of late antiquity
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monografia Rebiun22513097 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun22513097 m o d cr un|---uuuuu 121224s2009 xx o 000 0 eng d 748533292 816855256 979910367 1283210762 9781283210768 9780812200287 0812200284 10.9783/9780812200287 doi IDEBK eng pn IDEBK OCLCQ EBLCP OCLCQ MERUC DEGRU ZCU OCLCF OCLCQ ICG OCLCQ DKC OCLCQ HBLA bicssc HIS002020 bisacsh HIS037010 bisacsh Barbarian Tides the Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire University of Pennsylvania Press 2009 University of Pennsylvania Press 1 online resource (383 pages) 1 online resource (383 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Middle Ages Series 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 Barbarian Tides radically subverts the grand narrative of a "Germanic" migration and reinvents the role of barbarians in the Later Roman Empire. Goffart sets out how the fragmented foreign peoples once living on the edges of the Empire participated with the Romans in the larger stirrings of late antiquity In English Migrations of nations Migrations of nations Electronic books Goffart, Walter