Incorporating exciting new material that has come to light since the last German edition of 1980, Herwig Wolfram places Gothic history within its proper context of late Roman society and institutions. He demonstrates that the barbarian world of the Goths was both a creation of and an essential element of the late Roman Empire.
Incorporating exciting new material that has come to light since the last German edition of 1980, Herwig Wolfram places Gothic history within its prop...
The names of early Germanic warrior tribes and leaders resound in songs and legends; the real story of the part they played in reshaping the ancient world is no less gripping. Herwig Wolfram's panoramic history spans the great migrations of the Germanic peoples and the rise and fall of their kingdoms between the third and eighth centuries, as they invaded, settled in, and ultimately transformed the Roman Empire. As Germanic military kings and their fighting bands created kingdoms, and won political and military recognition from imperial governments through alternating confrontation and...
The names of early Germanic warrior tribes and leaders resound in songs and legends; the real story of the part they played in reshaping the ancient w...
Waren die Germanen Barbaren? Was wissen wir über die Moorleichen? Wie waren die Germanen bewaffnet? Kannten die Germanen die Demokratie? Was sind Runen? Wie klingt das gotische Vaterunser? Wie wurde aus Arminius Hermann der Cherusker? Wie versuchen heute Neonazis, den Germanenbegriff zu mißbrauchen? Allen, die sich solche und vergleichbare Fragen zu Geschichte, Kultur, Religion, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft der Germanen schon einmal gestellt, ohne darauf überzeugende Antworten erhalten zu haben, sei dieses kleine Buch empfohlen!
Waren die Germanen Barbaren? Was wissen wir über die Moorleichen? Wie waren die Germanen bewaffnet? Kannten die Germanen die Demokratie? Was sind Run...
