Walter Goffart (–2025)
Author of Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584
About the Author
Walter Goffart is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Toronto and Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer at Yale University.
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Works by Walter Goffart
The Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 550-800): Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon (1988) 82 copies
Caput and colonate: Towards a history of late Roman taxation (Phoenix supplementary volume) (1974) 4 copies
Associated Works
On Barbarian Identity: Critical Approaches to Ethnicity in the Early Middle Ages (Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 4) (2002) — Contributor — 14 copies, 1 review
The Medieval Way of War: Studies in Medieval Military History in Honor of Bernard S. Bachrach (2015) — Contributor — 7 copies
The Haskins Society journal : studies in medieval history. Volume 2, 1990 (2003) — Contributor — 3 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Goffart, Walter
- Legal name
- Goffart, Walter André
- Birthdate
- 1934-02-22
- Date of death
- 2025-02-14
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Harvard University (AB|1955|AM|1956|Ph.D|1961)
- Occupations
- historian
professor - Organizations
- Yale University
University of Toronto
University of California, Berkeley
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
American Historical Association
Haskins Society - Awards and honors
- Haskins medal (1991)
Medieval Academy of America (Fellow, 1982)
Royal Society of Canada (Fellow, 1996)
Royal Historical Society (Corresponding Fellow) - Relationships
- Frank, Roberta (spouse)
- Nationality
- Germany (birth)
USA (naturalized 1959) - Birthplace
- Berlin, Germany
- Places of residence
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Place of death
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Members
Reviews
This book's purpose is to prove the thesis that the Barbarians were not given 1/3 the land of the Roman provinces they initially took over, but got the 1/3rd in Tax Money instead. It's slow going and a little dull. The English translation from German sounds a little turgid, but I don't know German. If you have to read it; read it. If not you may wish to look at Peter Heather's The Fall of The Roman Empire.
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Statistics
- Works
- 9
- Also by
- 5
- Members
- 293
- Popularity
- #79,899
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 25
- Languages
- 1