List of maps viii List of figures ix Contributors x Series editor's preface ' xiv Acknowledgments xvii Maps xix A. chronology of Romans and barbarians in Late Antiquity xxiii

Introduction: Romans, barbarians, and the transformation of the Roman Empire 1 THOMAS F, X. NOBLE

PART I Barbarian ethnicity and identity 29

1 The crisis of European identity 33 PATRICK J. GEARY

2 Gothic history as historical ethnography 43 HERWIG WOLFRAM

3 Origo et religio: ethnic traditions and literature in early medieval texts 70 HERWIG WOLFRAM

4 Does the distant past impinge on the invasion age Germans? 91 WALTER GOFFART CONTENTS

5 Defining the Franks: Prankish origins in early medieval historiography 110 IAN WOOD

6 Telling the difference: signs of ethnic identity 120 WALTER POHL

7 Gender and ethnicity in the early middle ages 168 WALTER POHL

8 Grave goods and the ritual expression of identity 189 BONNIE EFFROS

Part II: Accommodating the Barbarians 233

9 The barbarians in late antiquity and how they were accommodated in the West 235 WALTER GOFFART

10 Archaeologists and migrations: a problem of attitude? 262 HEINRICH HARKE

11 Movers and shakers: the barbarians and the fall of Rome 277 GUY HALSALL

12 Foedet-a and foederati of the fourth century 292 PETER J. HEATHER

13 Cities, taxes, and the accommodation of the barbarians 309 WOLF LIEBESCHUTZ

Part III: Barbarians and Romans in Merovingian Gaul 325 14 The two faces of King Childeric: history, archaeology, historiography 327 STEPHANE LEBECQ

15 Frankish victory celebrations 345 MICHAEL McCORMICK CONTENTS

16 Administration, law, and culture in Merovingian Gaul 358 IAN WOOD

17 ''Pax et disciplina'i Roman public law and the Merovingian state 376 ALEXANDER CALLANDER MURRAY

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