Goths and Romans, 332-489

Using contemporary sources, this study challenges the traditional view that Goths entered the Roman Empire already established as a coherent group. Instead, the author shows that the Visigoths and Ostrogoths were large new social groupings, struggling to survive the upheavals of the Migration Period

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heather, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon 1991, 1991
Series:Oxford historical monographs / Oxford historical monographs
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Summary:Using contemporary sources, this study challenges the traditional view that Goths entered the Roman Empire already established as a coherent group. Instead, the author shows that the Visigoths and Ostrogoths were large new social groupings, struggling to survive the upheavals of the Migration Period
Physical Description:xi, 378 p. ill., maps
ISBN:9780191676581