List of maps
List of figures
Contributors
Series editor’s preface
Acknowledgments
Maps
A chronology of Romans and barbarians in Late Antiquity
Introduction: Romans, barbarians, and the transformation of the Roman Empire
THOMAS F.X.NOBLE
PART I Barbarian ethnicity and identity
1. The crisis of European identity
PATRICK J.GEARY
2. Gothic history as historical ethnography
HERWIG WOLFRAM
3. Origo et religio: ethnic traditions and literature in early medieval texts
HERWIG WOLFRAM
4. Does the distant past impinge on the invasion age Germans?
WALTER GOFFART
5. Defining the Franks: Frankish origins in early medieval historiography
IAN WOOD
6. Telling the difference: signs of ethnic identity
WALTER POHL
7. Gender and ethnicity in the early middle ages
WALTER POHL
8. Grave goods and the ritual expression of identity
BONNIE EFFROS
Part II: Accommodating the Barbarians
9 . The barbarians in late antiquity and how they were accommodated in the West
WALTER GOFFART
10. Archaeologists and migrations: a problem of attitude?
HEINRICH HÄRKE
11. Movers and shakers: the barbarians and the fall of Rome
GUY HALSALL
12. Foedera and foederati of the fourth century
PETER J. HEATHER
13. Cities, taxes, and the accommodation of the barbarians
WOLF LIEBESCHÜTZ
PartIII: Barbarians and Romans in Merovingian Gaul
14. The two faces of King Childeric: history, archaeology, historiography
STÉPHANE LEBECQ
15. Frankish victory celebrations
MICHAEL MCCORMICK
16. Administration, law, and culture in Merovingian Gaul
IAN WOOD
17. ‘Pax et disciplina’: Roman public law and the Merovingian state
ALEXANDER CALLANDER MURRAY
Index