Romans and Barbarians: The Decline of the Western Empire (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 029908700X ISBN 13: 9780299087005

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1982

The Fall of the Roman Empire—from the barbarian's perspective

Available for the first time in paperback, this classic work by renowned historian E.A. Thompson examines the fall of the Roman Empire in the West from the barbarian perspective and experience. Standard interpretations of the decline of the Roman Empire in the West view the barbarian invaders as destroyers. Thompson, however, argues that the relationship between the invaders and the invaded was far more complex than the common interpretation would suggest. This edition includes a new foreword by F.M. Clover and J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz.

From the Publisher:

Wisconsin Studies in Classics Richard Daniel De Puma and Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, General Editors

About the Author:

E. A. Thompson (1914–1994) was professor of classics at the University of Nottingham in England from 1948 to 1979. His many books include A History of Attila and the Huns, The Visigoths in the Time of Ulfila, and The Goths in Spain.