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Author Halsall, Guy

Title Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568
Published Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2007
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Description 1 online resource (615 pages)
Series Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
Cambridge medieval textbooks
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps and Figure; Acknowledgements; A note on spellings; Part I Romans and barbarians in the imperial world; 1 How the west was lost and where it got us; 2 Defining identities; 3 The late Roman Empire in the west; 4 Society beyond the frontier; 5 Romans and barbarians before 376; Part II A world renegotiated: western europe, 376-550; 6 The Gothic crisis, 376-382; 7 The crisis of the empire, 382-410; 8 The triumph of the generals, 410-455; 9 The parting of gaul and italy, 455-480; 10 Kingdoms of the empire, 476-550
11 Provincial society in the long fifth century12 Beyond the old frontier; Part III Romans and barbarians in a post-imperial world; 13 Mechanisms of migration and settlement; 14 New peoples, new identities, new kingdoms?; 15 A changed world: the roots of failure; Appendix: Gildas' narrative and the identity of the 'proud tyrant'; Bibliography; Abbreviations; Index
Summary An examination of the barbarian migrations and their role in the creation of medieval Europe
Notes Print version record
Subject Regions & Countries - Europe.
History & Archaeology.
Italy.
SUBJECT Italy -- History -- 392-814
Rome -- History -- Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115148
Europe -- History -- 392-814. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045689
Subject Europe
Italy
Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511455162
051145516X