Heather, Goths and Romans (1994)
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Abbreviation
Heather, Goths and Romans (1994)
Form of publication
Book

Peter J. Heather, Goths and Romans 332-489, series Oxford Historical Monographs (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., New York 1994)

ISBN / ISSN
ISBN 0-19-820234-2 / ISBN 0-19-820535-X (p.b.)
First edition
Date of publication of first edition
1991
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"This book examines the collision of Goths and Romans in the fourth and fifth centuries. In these years Gothic tribes played a major role in the destruction of the western half of the Roman Empire, establishing successor states in southern France and Spain (the Visigoths) and in Italy (the Ostrogoths). Our understanding of the Goths in this ‘Migration Period’ has been based upon the Gothic historian Jordanes, whose mid-sixth-century Getica suggests that the Visigoths and Ostrogoths entered the Empire already established as coherent groups and simply conquered new territories. Using more contemporary sources, the author is able to show that, on the contrary, Visigoths and Ostrogoths were new and unprecedentedly large social groupings, and that many Gothic societies failed even to survive the upheavals of the Migration Period. This scholarly study explores the complicated interactions with Roman power, which both prompted the creation of the Visigoths and Ostrogoths around newly emergent dynasties and helped bring about the fall of the Roman Empire."

Contents: Figures p. xii. Abbreviations p. xiii. Part I. Jordanes and Gothic History: 1. Reconstructing Gothic History pp. 3-33. 2. The Historical Value of Jordanes’ Getica pp. 34-67. Part II. The Formation of the Visigoths: Goths and Romans pp. 376-418: Introduction to Part II pp. 71-83. 3. Goths and Romans before the Huns pp. 84-121. 4. The Danube Crossing and Gothic War pp. 122- 156. 5. The Peace of 382 and After pp.157-192. 6. Alaric and the Move to Gaul pp. 193-224. Part III. The Formation of the Ostrogoths: Goths in the Balkans, pp. 450-489. Introduction to Part III pp. 227-239. 7. Pannonians and Thracians: The Origins of Conflict, 453-473 pp. 240- 271. 8. Zeno and the Goths, 474-479 pp. 272-293. 9. Solving the Gothic Problem pp. 294-308. Conclusion pp. 309-330. Appendices: A. Gothic Tribal Names pp. 331-333. B. Goths in Pannonia, c.380-408 pp. 334-344. Bibliography pp. 345-360. Index pp. 361-378. Total pages i-xvi and 1-378.

Key words
Adrianople / Edirne.
Adriatic Sea.
Alans.
Ammianus Marcellinus.
Anastasius I, emperor.
Arcadius / Arkadios, emperor.
Aspar, general.
Attila, ruler.
Balkans.
Barbarians.
Belisarius, general.
Bithynia.
Byzantine army.
Christianity.
Constantine the Great.
Constantinople / Polis / Istanbul.
Dacia.
Dacians.
Danube.
Dio Cassius / Cassius Dio.
Dniester, river.
Durrës / Dyrrachion / Epidamnos.
Eunapius / Eunapios.
Europa, province, Dioecesis Thraciae.
Eusebios of Caesarea / Eusebius of Caesarea.
Evagrios Scholastikos / Evagrius Scholasticus.
Farming, farmers.
Franks.
Gepids, people.
Getes, people.
Goths.
Haimimontus, province, Dioecesis Thraciae.
Heruls.
Huns.
Illyricum, Early Byzantine.
Italy.
Late Antiquity.
Leo I, emperor.
Lesser Scythia, province / Scythia Minor, province, Dioecesis Thraciae.
Libanius, rhetor.
Macedonia.
Moesia II, province, Dioecesis Thraciae / Moesia Inferioris.
Ostrogoths.
Pannonia.
Regular army.
Roman Empire, East.
Roman Empire, West.
Rome.
Sarmatians.
Senate.
Spain.
Synesius of Cyrene.
Theodosius I , the Great.
Theophylact Simocatta.
Thessaly.
Thrace, Early Byzantine period.
Thracia, province, Dioecesis Thraciae.
Valens, emperor.
Vandals, people.
Varna.
Via Egnatia.
Vize / Vizye / Bizye.
War.
Zeno, emperor.