Barbarians, Maps, and Historiography

To complement his first collection of articles (Rome''s Fall and After, 1989), Walter Goffart presents here a further set of essays, all but two published between 1988 and 2007. They mainly focus on two types of historiography: early medieval narratives, with special attention to Bede''s Historia ecclesiastica; and printed maps designed to portray and teach history, with special attention to the u...