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.