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.
Herwig Wolframis Professor of History at the University of Vienna and Director of the Austrian Institute for Historical Research.
Preface
Introduction
Gothic History as Historical Ethnography
1. The Names
The Gothic Name
The Dual Names of the Two Gothic Peoples
Visigoths and Ostrogoths as Western Goths and Eastern Goths
The Epic and the Derisive Names of the Goths
Biblical and Classical Names for the Goths
Gothic Royal Houses and Their Names
2. The Formation of the Gothic Tribes before the Invasion of the Huns
Gutones and Guti
Politics and Institutions of the Gutones
The Trek to the Black Sea
The Goths at the Black Sea
The Gothic Invasions of the Third Century
The Gothic Advance into the Aegean
Aurelian and the Division of the Goths
The Tervingian-Vesian Confederation at the Danube
The Events of 291 to 364
The Era of Athanaric, 365-376/381
Ulfilas and the Beginning of the Conversion of the Goths
The Ostrogothic Greutungi until the Invasion of the Huns
Ermanaric's Greutungian Kingdl3&
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