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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 classicBarbarians and Romans, Walter...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Middle Ages series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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 accomodation" revisited
- None of them were Germans : northern barbarians in late antiquity
- Conclusion : the long simplification of late antiquity.