Publisher:
Berkeley: University of California Press, (1988).
Seller ID: 9550gcs
Octavo, black cloth & boards (hardcover), gilt letters, map illus. endpapers, xii, 613 pp, 7 Maps. Fine in a Near-Fine dust jacket slight sunning to the edges. From dust jacket: Much studied and much misunderstood, the Goths represent all the barbarian peoples whose presence inside and outside the late Roman Empire accelerated its transformation into the eastern Byzantine world and the Western Medieval kingdoms.Herwig Wolfram corrects erroneous perspectives of the past on Gothic history and places it within its proper context, that of late Roman society and institutions. Rejecting the nati... View More...
