num_pages: 491
description: 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 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.
language: English
title: The Narrators of Barbarian History (AD 550 - 800): Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon
titlecomplete: The Narrators of Barbarian History (AD 550 - 800): Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon
characters: Jordanes, Bede, Paul the Deacon, Gregory of Tours
genres: Medieval History, Medieval, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 28
places: Europe, Merovingian Kingdoms
publisher: University of Notre Dame Press