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THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND ITS GERMANIC PEOPLES
by Wolfram, Herwig; Thomas Dunlap (Tr. )
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0520085116
- ISBN 13
- 9780520085114
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University of California Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0520085116 . Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Minor scuffing to boards. ; 1.1 x 9.2 x 6.2 Inches; 379 pages; 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. .
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- Bookseller
- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2714
- Title
- THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND ITS GERMANIC PEOPLES
- Author
- Wolfram, Herwig; Thomas Dunlap (Tr. )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0520085116
- ISBN 13
- 9780520085114
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- 0520085116, Rome, Historiography, Roman History, German Studies, Gothic, Classical Greek & Roman, Late Antiquity
- Bookseller catalogs
- Late Antiquity; German Studies;
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