This book examines the collision of Goths and Romans in the fourth
and fifth centuries. In these years Gothic tribes played a major
role in the destruction of the western half of the Roman Empire,
moving the length of Europe from what is now the USSR to establish
successor states to the Roman Empire in southern France and Spain
(the Visigoths) and in Italy (the Ostrogoths). Our understanding of
the Goths in this "Migration Period" has been based upon the Gothic
historian Jordanes, whose mid-sixth-century Getica suggests that
the Visigoths and Ostrogoths entered the Empire already established
as coherent groups and simply conquered new territories. Using more
contemporary sources, Peter Heather is able to show that, on the
contrary, Visigoths and Ostrogoths were new and unprecedentedly
large social groupings, and that many Gothic societies failed even
to survive the upheavals of the Migration Period. Dr Heather's
scholarly study explores the complicated interactions with Roman
power which both prompted the creation of the Visigoths and
Ostrogoths around newly emergent dynasties and helped bring about
the fall of the Roman Empire.
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