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Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire by Walter Goffart (Hardback, 2006)

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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 t swamped by a migratory Germanic flood for the simple reason that there was single ancient Germanic civilization to be transplanted onto ex-Roman soil. Since the sixteenth century, the belief that purposeful Germans existed in parallel with the Romans has been a fixed point in European history. Goffart uncovers the origins of this historical untruth and argues that any projection of a modern Germany out of an ancient one is illusory. Rather, the multiplicity of rthern peoples once living on the edges of the Empire participated with the Romans in the larger stirrings of late antiquity. Most relevant among these was the long militarization that gripped late Roman society concurrently with its Christianization. If the fragmented foreign peoples with which the Empire dealt gave Rome an advantage in maintaining its ascendancy, the readiness to admit military talents of any social origin to positions of leadership opened the door of imperial service to immigrants from beyond its frontiers. Many barbarians were settled in the provinces without dislodging the Roman residents or destabilizing landownership; some were even incorporated into the ruling families of the Empire. The outcome of this process, Goffart argues, was a society headed by elites of soldiers and Christian clergy-one we have come to call medieval.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812239393
ISBN-13
9780812239393
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95963638

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Author
Walter Goffart
Format
With Printed Dust Jacket, Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Ancient History
Type
Textbook

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Weight
699g
Height
5817mm
Width
3887mm

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Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Spine
22mm
Series Title
The Middle Ages Series
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Author Biography
Walter Goffart is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Toronto and Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer at Yale University.
Date of Publication
16/06/2006
Genre
Ancient History
Country of Publication
United States

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