The Goths

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Drawing on all available literary and archaeological evidence, the author reconstructs the Goth's dramatic history and explores the meaning of Gothic identity at different moments and in different contexts. The volume's three sections correspond to the three main phases in Gothic history: their early history down to the fourth century, the revolution in Gothic society set in motion by the arrival of the Huns, and the history of the Gothic successor states to the western Roman Empire. c. Book Ne…

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Title Statements

Full title :The Goths / Peter Heather.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:1996.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Blackwell Publishers
Place of Publication:Oxford, OX, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:1996.

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 358 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0631165363, 9780631165361
oclc:ocm34245226
LC Classification:D137
Dewey Decimal:909/.0439

The Gothic problem -- In search of the Goths. From the Baltic to the Black Sea ; The fourth-century kingdoms -- Goths, Huns and Romans. The Hunnic revolution ; Goths and Romans : remaking the Gothic world ; The transformation of the Goths 376-484 -- The kingdom of the Goths. The first Gothic successor state ; Ostrogothic Italy : kingdom and empire ; Sixth-century crises and beyond ; Symbols, mechanisms and continuities -- Appendix 1 : Procopius and the Gothic elite -- Appendix 2 : non-Goths in the army of Totila.