The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-520-24490-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 381 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

The names of early Germanic warrior tribes and leaders resound in songs and legends; the real story of the part they played in reshaping the ancient world is no less gripping. Herwig Wolfram's panoramic history spans the great migrations of the Germanic peoples and the rise and fall of their kingdoms between the third and eighth centuries, as they invaded, settled in, and ultimately transformed the Roman Empire.

As Germanic military kings and their fighting bands created kingdoms, and won political and military recognition from imperial governments through alternating confrontation and accommodation, the "tribes" lost their shared culture and social structure, and became sharply differentiated. They acquired their own regions and their own histories, which blended with the history of the empire. In Wolfram's words, "the Germanic peoples neither destroyed the Roman world nor restored it; instead, they made a home for themselves within it."

This story is far from the "decline and fall" interpretation that held sway until recent decades. Wolfram's narrative, based on his sweeping grasp of documentary and archaeological evidence, brings new clarity to a poorly understood period of Western history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wolfram, Herwig

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dunlap, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

LIST OF GENEALOGICAL CHARTS

CHRONOLOGIES

INTRODUCTION

ONE
Kings, Heroes, and Tribal Origins

TWO
The Empire and the "New" Peoples:From the Marcomannic Wars to the End of the Third Century

THREE
The Germanic Peoples as Enemies and Servants of the Empire in the Fourth Century
FOUR
Emperorship and Kingship on Roman Soil

FIVE
The Hunnic Alternative

SIX
The Kingdom of Toulouse (418-507):Pioneering Achievement and Failed Accommodation

SEVEN
The Vandals (406-534): A Unique Case?

EIGHT
Odovacar, or the Roman Empire That Did Not End

NINE
Theodoric (451-526) and Clovis (466/467-511)

TEN
A Battle for Rome (526l535-552/555)

ELEVEN
Britain Too Was Not Conquered:The Making of England in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries

TWELVE
The Burgundians: Weakness and Resilience (407/413-534)

THIRTEEN
The Spanish Kingdom of the Visigoths (507/568-711/725):The First Nation of Europe

FOURTEEN
The Longobard Epilogue (488-643/652)

FIFTEEN
The Transformation of the Roman World

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX
MAPS

Über Autor(innen)

Herwig Wolfram is Professor of History at the University of Vienna. His earlier History of the Goths (California, 1988) has been widely acclaimed. Thomas Dunlap, translator of History of the Goths and a number of other books including Joachim Bumke's Courtly Culture (California, 1991), lives and works in Belmont, Massachusetts.