Barbarian tides : the migration age and the later Roman Empire
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Philadelphia, Pa. : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press,
2006
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | The Middle Ages series
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| Schlagworte: | Migrations of nations Römisches Reich Völkerwanderung Germanen Geschichte 370-600 0300-0600 |
| Umfang: | X, 372 S |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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