Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe, (Paperback)

from DinadansFriend

Peter Heather has researched the massive culture shift at the end of the roman empire, and has concentrated on the migrations. He has documented the three types of Migrations and explored their effects on Europe and the Mediterranean. It is a very interesting addition to the literature on the tra...

from jerry-book

Remarkable tale of the barbarians who put an end to the Roman empire and created the Europe that we know today.

from Shrike58

Thesis/Antithesis/Synthesis. In this wide-ranging work Peter Heather makes a good effort at placing migration back in the analysis of how the world of Roman Late Antiquity eventually gave way to Europe. This is after such concepts were read out of theory, due to a combination of failing to fit th...

from milocross

NOTA BENE: The introduction of my edition of this book gets its own title wrong, calling itself, "Emperors and Barbarians." That made me roar with laughter because here's this absolutely fabulous book and some lazybones in the Macmillan offices couldn't be bothered to copyedit it with care. Same ...

from dhmontgomery

A thorough, educational and thought-provoking — if massive and occasionally overwhelming work about the "barbarian invasions" that wracked Europe for more than a half century, coinciding with the fall of Roman hegemony in the West, the rise of successor kingdoms, and then those kingdoms' own stru...