Introduction; Part 1: Jordanes and Gothic History; Part 2: The Formation of the Visigoths; Part 3: The Formation of the Ostrogoths; Conclusion; Appendices
`an important contribution to our understanding of the entrance of
the Goths into the Roman world.'
J.H.W.G. Liebeschutz, University of Nottingham, Journal of Roman
Studies
`another important and scholarly contribution ... It is indeed
refreshing to read a good history of the fourth and fifth centuries
written from a non-Roman point of view'
Times Literary Supplement
'this lean and lucid book ... has an important contribution to
make'
James J. O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr Classical
Review 3.2(1992)
'Peter Heather's new study provides impressive proof of the sheer
magnitude of Julian's misjudgement. The reader is well served ...
by Heather's consistently careful attention to necessary details of
chronology and geography.'
'Heather has written a learned ... book on the formation and
migration of the Goths during the fourth and fifth centuries. There
are fine maps and a comprehensive bibiography. Graduate;
faculty.'
K.W. Harl, Tulane University, Choice, Jan '93
'compelling re-reading of Gothic and Roman history ... Heather has
written a masterful account of leaders trying to lead in difficult
times as circumstances changed with amazing rapidity around them
and when their future was not as clear to them as it now
appears.'
John J. Contreni, Purdue University, The Historian
'a substantial contribution to our knowledge and understanding of
the Germanic newcomers ... a classic, on a par with those
pioneering nineteenth-century analyses which first undermined the
credibility of the Historia Augusta. H. tells a fascinating
detective story - a genuinely gripping and exciting read of the
sort rarely found in scholarly monographs - and he is totally
convincing. Thanks to him, Gothic studies will never be the same
again.'
J.F. Drinkwater, University of Nottingham, Classical Review
'The book is carefully argued, nicely printed, and has good
maps.'
Steven Muhlberger, Nipissing University, The International History
Review, XV, 2: May 1993
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