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The names of early Germanic warrior-tribes and leaders resound in songs and legends, and the real story of the part they played in transforming 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.

Wolfram's narrative is far from the "decline and fall" interpretation that held sway until recent decades. He describes the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages as a generally unsettled, frequently violent time of decentralization, depopulation, and shifts of power. Byzantium became the only center of the old Roman Empire while the western empire ceased to exist as such.

Only the increasing authority of the papacy in the Christian-Catholic world helped Rome survive as an imperial capital for the medieval Frankish kingdom and the Holy Roman Empire. This story, based on Wolfram's sweeping grasp of documentary and archaeological evidence, brings new clarity to a poorly understood period of Western history.

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The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples
March 18, 2005, University of California Press
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The Roman Empire and its Germanic peoples
1997, University of California Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-345) and index.

Published in
Berkeley, Calif

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
937/.09
Library of Congress
DG312 .W6613 1997, DG312.W6613 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 361 p. :
Number of pages
361

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1000807M
Internet Archive
romanempireitsge0000wolf
ISBN 10
0520085116
LCCN
96039741
OCLC/WorldCat
35978640
Library Thing
553161
Goodreads
2286287

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