Product Description: When barbarians took power in the provinces of the Western Roman Empire, the old stereotypes did not suffice to make sense of the situation. Romans faced the migrants with the help of an ancient, if only partly adequate, body of knowledge, but also curious for different explanations...read more

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Product Description: Twenty-one papers, from a conference held in Schloss Neuwaldegg in Austria in 1998, examine the ethnic identity and social organisation of the populations of Europe, particularly central Europe, during the post-Roman period. The emphasis is on the ways in which nomadic tribes integrated with indigenous populations, filling the political vacuum left by the Romans...read more

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Product Description: Since Edward Gibbon, the degree of disruption or gradual change at the end of antiquity has been vehemently debated. Did Rome fall, or was it only transformed. Was the Empire destroyed by barbarians or was its decay inevitable for internal reasons? By carefully formulating answers to these and other seminal questions, "Kingdoms of the Empire" will prove an indispensable tool to both classical and medieval scholars...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)