Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 550–800), The
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Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 550–800), The

Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon

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Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 550–800), The

Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon

About this book

In this substantial work Walter Goffart treats the four writers who provide the principal narrative sources for our early knowledge of the Ostrogoths, Franks, Anglo-Saxons, and Lombards: Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon. The University of Notre Dame Press is pleased to make this book available for the first time in paperback. Winner of the Medieval Academy of America's Haskins Medal for 1991, The Narrators of Barbarian History treats the four writers who are the main early sources for our knowledge of the Ostrogoths, Franks, Anglo-Saxons, and Lombards. In his preface to this paperback edition, Goffart examines the questions his work has evoked since its original publication in 1988 and enlarges the bibliography to account for recent scholarship.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Preface to the Paperback Edition
  9. Preface
  10. Abbreviations
  11. I. The First Major Historians of Medieval Europe
  12. II. Jordanes and His Three Histories
  13. Ill. Gregory of Tours and "The Triumph of Superstition"
  14. IV. Bede and the Ghost of Bishop Wilfrid
  15. V. Paul the Deacon's Interpretation of Lombard History
  16. VI. Conclusion
  17. Secondary Works Cited
  18. Index of Passages Cited
  19. General Index