Table of Contents

Introduction.

Part I Germania.

1 Land and People.

2 The Social Fabric.

3 The Germans and the Advance of Rome.

4 The Living and the Dead.

5 Trade and Diplomacy.

6 Cult, Art and Technology.

Part II Germanic Europe: Frontier Societies.

7 The Gothic Kingdoms.

8 The Suebi and Vandals.

9 Franks, Alamanni and Burgundians.

10 The Northern Peoples.

11 The Gepids and Lombards.

12 The Thuringians and Bavarians.

Conclusion.

Sources.

Bibliography.

Index

About the Author

Malcolm Todd is an Emeritus Professor of Archaeology and former Principal of Trevelyan College in the University of Durham. He is the author interalia of ‘The Northern Barbarians’ (Second Edition, Blackwell Publishing, 1987) and ‘Roman Britain’ (Third Edition, Blackwell Publishing, 1999), editor of ‘The Blackwell Companion to Roman Britain’ (Blackwell Publishing, 2003) and a contributor to ‘The Cambridge Ancient History’ and ‘Der Neue Pauly’.