How an Empire Ends: Germanic Heroic Legend (The Show Notes)
Ancient Sources:
Tacitus: Germania (Thomas Gordon translation)
The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus (J. C. Rolfe translation)
Sozomen’s Ecclesiastical History (Chester D. Hartranft translation)
The Secret History of Procopius (H.B. Dewing translation)
Jordanes: the Origins and Deeds of the Goths (Charles C. Mierow translation)
Zosimus: A New History
Pliny the Elder: Natural History (John Bostock translation)
Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin
The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise (Christopher Tolkien translation)
Widsith
The Battle of the Goths and the Huns (Christopher Tolkien translation)
Waltharius
Modern Sources:
The So Called Dark Ages: King of the Goths: Quilette, Herbert Bushman
Herwig Wolfram: History of the Goths
Peter Heather: The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
Peter Heather: The Goths
Peter Bugoki: The Barbarians: Lost Civilizations
Simon MacDowall: The Goths: Conquerors of the Roman Empire
Open Access Journal: Empire in Crisis: Gothic Invasions and Roman Historiography
Guy Halsall: Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West
Douglas Boin: Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome
The Middle Ages.net: Theodoric the Great
Brittanica.com: Amalasuintha
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Theodoric the Goth: Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
Cassiodorus and the Rise of the Amals: Genealogy and the Goths under Hun Domination: Peter Heather, The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 79 (1989), pp. 103-128
Brittanica.com: Theodoric: King of Italy
Hans-Peter Hasenfratz: Barbarian Rites: The Spiritual World of the Vikings and the Germanic Tribes.
Douglas Boin: Coming Out Christian in the Roman World: How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar’s Empire
Catherine Nixey: The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
Johnathan Martin: Dietrich von Bern and “Historical” Narrative in the German Middle Ages:An Investigation of Strategies for Establishing Credibility in Four Poems of the Middle High German Dietrichepik
Lena Highswander: No Nazis in Valhalla: Understanding the Use (and Misuse) of Nordic Cultural Markers in Third Reich Era Germany
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