The early Germans
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The early Germans
（The peoples of Europe）
Blackwell, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-275) and index
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Description
The Germanic tribes conquered and settled in the land of the Western Roman Empire between AD 400 and 600. They spread over Europe and North Africa, absorbing military, political and social customs from the Romans into their own cultures. Malcolm Todd traces the development of the Goths, Vandals, Suebi, Franks, Alamanni, Burgundians Lombards and other tribes from late pre-history to the period of migration, and views their conquest of the Western Empire not as an abrupt transition but as part of a continuum. The author makes use of archaeological and literary sources to trace the ethnogenesis and early history of the Germanic people. This subject has been neglected by historians or, in the case of the Nazis, wilfully distorted.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: rediscovery. Part 1: land and people
- the social fabric
- the Germans and the advance of Rome
- the living and the dead
- trade and diplomacy
- cult, art and technology. Part 2 Frontier societies: the Gothic kingdoms
- the Suebi and the Vandals
- the Franks, Alamanni and Burgundians
- the Northern peoples
- the Gepids and Lombards
- the Thuringians and Bavarians. Conclusion: from antiquity to today.
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