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# The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples

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    A Concise History of Rome & the Germanic Peoples
  

*by M***W on Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2020*

This is an in depth look at the Empire of Rome & It's relations with the various Germanic peoples focused on the second through fifth centuries A.D. (100's-400's).The author, Hermann Wolfram, takes the view that the Roman Empire did not "fall" in 476, but instead, was transformed by the incoming Germanic peoples into a series of major and minor kingdoms that transformed into Medieval and then Modern Europe.The author's style is scholarly and at times quite dry but he makes his points clear before going into detail to explain his viewpoint.  This is not a book for the novice.  It helps to have a basic knowledge of the era and the subject before attempting to read this work.  Even I found the chapters on the Goths to be a bit of a slog to read through, or at least to get started.That is the Bad News.  Otherwise I found this book quite unique and informative. I especially found of interest the chapter on "The Hunnic Alternative".  The last chapter, if I remember correctly, also had a short subsection noted as "The Slavic Alternative" which I found to be of note.This is a unique work of depth and detail that many may find mind numbing if you are not truly interested in this little known and so too often misunderstood or out rightly ignored but highly important time period.PS;  The correct name of the author is Herwig Wolfram, I misidentified him as Hermann Wolfram above.

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    Hard to read, but worth it
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2010*

I found this book hard to read, compared to the two other books in my library which cover similar ground, namely 

  
The Early Germans (The Peoples of Europe)









  
  
    
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The Goths (The Peoples of Europe)









  
  
    
  .However, while the book is quite dry and unengaging, and while this does detract from the book to a significant extent (hence only four stars) the book presents a compelling picture of the decline of the Roman Empire and the rise of Germanic successor states which combines economic, military, and social elements, and which provides insights that no other book in my library does.For example, Wolfram makes a great deal of the differences in tax income, military expenditures, and economic disparity between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire.  He points out that the Eastern Empire spent more on their military than the Western Empire did on their entire budget, and he attributes this to problems with taxes caused by tremendous economic disparity in the West.  Wolfram offers many other valuable insights in this work, so this  is still a very valuable addition to the library of any history buff.Recommended.

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    Of Romans and Germans
  

*by K***Y on Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2008*

Mr. Wolfram has definitely done his homework; this is a well-written and extremely informative, if a rather dry, look at the relationship between Roman and German for really the entire Roman Imperial Period, though naturally focusing mostly on the AD 300-600 area (not to sound petty, but I was hoping for more information on the Germans of the earlier centuries, other than the Cherusci in AD 9 and the Marcomannic Wars you don't hear much about them).  Much of the book is about the various Germanic kings who carved out their own pieces of the Roman Empire in the 5th and 6th Centuries, like Gaiseric, Theodoric, Clovis, Odovacar, and others, and the movements and separate cultures and personalities of the major groups, the Goths, Vandals, Burgundians, and others are also profiled.  I particularly appreciated the author's look at the events of AD 476 in Chapter Eight, the `Empire that Did Not End'.  Also, he makes it clear that he sees the Barbarian `Invasions' as not invasions but immigration, from Italy to England.  Also included are some useful genealogy charts and chronologies.  Overall, a single great book on the early Germanic Kingdoms for those with a serious interest.

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