Late in August 410, Rome was starving, its residents were turning
on one another, and, to make matters worse, the Gothic army camped
at Rome's gates was restless. The Gothic commander was Alaric, a
Roman general and barbarian chieftain. Leading an army that was
short of food and potentially mutinous, sacking Rome was his only
way forward. The old heart of Rome's empire fell to a conqueror's
sword for the first time in eight hundred years. For three days,
Alaric's Goths sacked the eternal city. In the words of a
contemporary, the mother of the world had been murdered. Alaric's
story is the culmination of a long historical journey by which the
Goths came to be a part of the Roman world. Whether as friends or
foes of the Roman empire, the Goths and their history are entwined
with the larger history of Rome in the third and fourth centuries.
Rome's Gothic Wars explains how the Goths came into existence on
the margins of the Roman world, how different Gothic groups dealt
with the enormous power of Rome just beyond their lands, and how,
in two traumatic years, thousands of Goths entered the imperial
provinces and destroyed the army that was sent to suppress them,
leaving the emperor of the eternal city dead on the field of
battle. Unlike other histories of the barbarians, Rome's Gothic
Wars shows exactly how and why modern historians understand the
Goths the way they do and why our understanding is so
controversial. Michael Kulikowski is associate professor of history
at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. A recipient of the
Solmsen Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities
at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he is the author of Late
Roman Spain and Its Cities, which was awarded an Honorable Mention
in Classics and Archaeology from the Association of American
University Presses. His scholarly articles have appeared in Early
Medieval Europe, Britannia, Phoenix, and Byzantium, and he has
appeared on the History Channel's Barbarians series."
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