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Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire
Walter Goffart
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Description for Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire
Paperback. 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. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 384 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 594.
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, 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.
The Empire was not swamped by a migratory Germanic flood for the simple reason that there was no single ancient Germanic civilization to be transplanted onto ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Series
The Middle Ages Series
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812221053
SKU
V9780812221053
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About Walter Goffart
Walter Goffart is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Toronto and Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer at Yale University.
Reviews for Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire
"Goffart has produced yet another major study on the migration of the Northern barbarians into the late Roman Empire. Although called a sequel to his Barbarians and Romans, this is a completely rethought, significantly expanded and rewritten version."
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"An important book which should be read attentively by all scholars of the late Roman West and early medieval ... Read more
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"An important book which should be read attentively by all scholars of the late Roman West and early medieval ... Read more