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Europe\'s Barbarians 200-600 - Ingvar Sigurdson - 04-06-2010 Hi Has anyone purchased and read this title; http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/Bookshop/det ... 0000036659 If so, what areyour thoughts and is it worth buying. best Ingvar Re: Europe\'s Barbarian\'s 200-600 - Kolba - 04-06-2010 Very interesting! I will definitely buy this book. Re: Europe\'s Barbarian\'s 200-600 - Ingvar Sigurdson - 04-06-2010 There is also another title that I am interested in which accompanied an exhibit in Venice n 2008. See here http://www.palazzograssi.it/roma/en/index.html A link to the book is here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rome-Barbarians ... pd_sim_b_5 Any feed back on this title? best Dave Re: Europe\'s Barbarian\'s 200-600 - Medicus matt - 04-07-2010 Quote:A link to the book is here It's fantastic mate, I picked up a copy at the BM in 2008, well worth the money. Second best book purchase of the year, after the catalogue for the Merovingians exhibition I saw in Moscow. Re: Europe\'s Barbarian\'s 200-600 - Ingvar Sigurdson - 04-08-2010 Cheers for the feed back Mat, I thinkI know the other book you refer to, is it the excellent 'The Merovingian Age; Europe without Borders' by Menghin et all? I think thats the title without running upstairs to check! best Dave Re: Europe\'s Barbarians 200-600 - Ingvar Sigurdson - 04-13-2010 Well I recieved the book and I must say an enjoyable read and would recommend it as on overview of past and present views and debate. The text is broken down into the following chapters Who are the barbarians. The barbarians before AD376 The barbarians from 376 TO 476 The barbarians after 476 Ethnicity, ethnogenisis and identity The barbarians at home Barbarians in Roman emplyment Barbarians on the move Assimilation, acculturation, and accommodation From paganism to Christianities Kingdom, kingship and law Conclusions Notes, biblography and index There is much to enjoy especially on topics frequently occuring on this forum. best Dave Re: Europe\'s Barbarians 200-600 - constantius - 04-19-2010 Sounds like a good book. Who is it written for? If I may ask. Did it give you a new understanding, new theories or reiterated and clarified what you knew already ? Re: Europe\'s Barbarians 200-600 - Alanus - 04-28-2010 Please! Is it generalizations or does the book have some "meat? ![]() Re: Europe\'s Barbarians 200-600 - Ingvar Sigurdson - 04-28-2010 Hi sorry for the delayed reply..life gets busy some times! The book does have meat and often quite witty remarks. I guess if anything it reinforces my belief that at uncertain times like we are living through now with the collapse of one super power in Europe and as countries previously dominated by that power search for national identities we all need reminding that no nation or culture is seperate from itself and that we all share more in our pasts then some who would try to seperate us now through fear and ignorance would perhaps prefer us not to believe...but to make your own mind up all I can truly say is read it your self and form your own opinion, sorry I can not be more elequent. The author does acknowledge that there is a whole corpus of new research in non anglophone academic circles and states that in order to publish a book ten years in the making he has had to concentrate on english language published research to enable the book to published in time. The other book that I queried about 'Rome and the Barbarians' I only just recieved and from first impressions, it's a mighty tome of 600 plus pages, excellent photographs of artifacts, Alamanni, Ostrogoth, Visigothic, Hunnic, Alan, Avar, Langobardic etc. It will take some to to read! cheers Dave Re: Europe\'s Barbarians 200-600 - Alanus - 05-03-2010 Ingvar, Thanks for getting back on that. I was wondering if it was the same old same old, or whether the author took a new approach, especially the "big picture." I think you answered that. I never find much on my particular interest-- the Indo-Iranian tribes, aka the Saka, Massagetae, Saraumate-Sarmatians, Iazyges, Roxolani, Alans, and Taifali. They also helped change the face of Europe, but seldom discussed by academics (except the Russians and Hungarians). ![]() Re: Europe\'s Barbarians 200-600 - Ingvar Sigurdson - 05-03-2010 Hi Alanus The book is a good overview of the various academic threads on the intercourse between the 'barbarians' and the Romans, although he does voice his own thoughts on the subject too. It is very accessable, and some of the peoples you mention get a look in too. I found it quite absorbing. The other book is a 'WOW'!! Best Dave Re: Europe\'s Barbarians 200-600 - Robert Vermaat - 05-03-2010 I haven't read either of these books yet, as I'm urrently reading another that i warmly recommend: Halsall, Guy: Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). Guy is also a member of this forum. :wink: Re: Europe\'s Barbarians 200-600 - Ingvar Sigurdson - 05-03-2010 Hi Robert, I'm expecting another good read in the post, fellow Ulfhednar member Steve Pollington's co-authored new title 'Wayland's Work' another mighty 500 plus pages, 62 colour plates. Very much looking forward to recieving it, as it looks at the 6th-7th Century Anglo-Saxon period. best Dave Re: Europe\'s Barbarians 200-600 - Medicus matt - 05-04-2010 Quote:I haven't read either of these books yet, as I'm urrently reading another that i warmly recommend:Spooky. I'm currently going through that as well. And Sam Moorhead's new 410 book. And an old copy of Cottrell's 'Seeing Roman Britain' (in which he talks about an amphitheatre at Winchester?) Re: Europe\'s Barbarians 200-600 - Alanus - 05-05-2010 Salve, You all It seems like "suddenly" this historical era is getting coverage from "new" authors. How welcomed! ![]() |