Walter Andre Goffart (born February 22, 1934) is a German-born American historian who specializes in Late Antiquity and the European Middle Ages. He taught...
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the throne in the subsequent actions of Charlemagne and his court. Walter Goffart argues that the Gesta Episcoporum Mettensium, written by Paul the Deacon...
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student of Walter Goffart. Among his fellow students of Goffart were Andrew Gillett. After gaining his PhD, which was completed not with Walter Goffart, but...
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Heather, Goths and Romans 332-489, Oxford 1991, pp. 47-49 (year 552), Walter Goffart, The Narrators of Barbarian History, Princeton 1988, p. 98 (year 554)...
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not have arisen through borrowing from attested Latin forms. Although Walter Goffart has objected that "no serious arguments substantiating the identification...
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most enduring periods of peace in the annals of civilization. However, Walter Goffart wrote: "The volume of the Cambridge Ancient History for the years AD...
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generally consider the Heruli to be one of these. While historians such as Walter Goffart have pointed out that the Herules are never included in the lists of...
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church, and Bishop Cynibert for information about Lindsey. The historian Walter Goffart argues that Bede based the structure of the Historia on three works...
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p. 256. Latin text: https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/pomponius3.html Walter Goffart (1983), "The Supposedly 'Frankish' Table of Nations: An Edition and...
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court of Thurisind, where the Gepid king gave him Turismod's arms. Walter Goffart believes it is probable that in this narrative Paul was making use of...
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Goffart, Walter; Goffart, Walter A. (eds.). After Rome's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History : Essays Presented to Walter Goffart....
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time, looked liked they were about to cease to exist. Canadian scholar Walter Goffart suggests another incentive, arguing that the Getica was part of a conscious...
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6th-century AD Byzantine origin, and not Frankish, according to historian Walter Goffart) and attempted to trace the peoples of the known world (as well as legendary...
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Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University. A protégé of Walter Goffart of the Toronto School of History, Gillett researches and teaches the...
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independent oral tradition would have faithfully transmitted such a detail. Walter Goffart estimated that Beowulf could not have been written with these historical...
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only refer to events in a much later period. Both Herwig Wolfram and Walter Goffart see the bridge story as likely to be symbolic. Based upon a proposal...
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fünf Bücher über Kriegswissenschaft und Kriegskunst der Römer. Seidel. Walter Goffart. The date and purposes of Vegetius' De Re Militari. In Rome's Fall and...
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Narrators and Sources of early medieval history. Essays presented to Walter Goffart (Toronto 1998) p.125 Wallace-Hadrill p. ??? Gregory, II.31. Wallace-Hadrill...
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Contemporaries". In Walter A. Goffart (ed.). After Rome's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History: Essays Presented to Walter Goffart. University...
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church, and Bishop Cynibert for information about Lindsey. The historian Walter Goffart argues that Bede based the structure of the Historia on three works...
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Studies, 6: 196–201, doi:10.2307/296272, JSTOR 296272, S2CID 162358804. Walter Goffart (1983), "The Supposedly 'Frankish' Table of Nations: An Edition and...
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By 757, Desiderius began securing his power, taking what historian Walter Goffart terms, "vigorous steps to suppress resistance to himself in the powerful...
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Goffart 1983, p. 118. Goffart 1983, p. 125. Goffart 1983, p. 116. Goffart 1983, p. 100. Goffart 1983, pp. 100–101. Goffart 1983, pp. 101–102. Goffart...
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category should be described as a genre is questioned, for example by Walter Goffart, because of doubts that the authors understood themselves to be following...
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the withdrawal of Legio XX Valeria Victrix from Britain. Historian Walter Goffart points out that while many sources identify Radagaisus as an Ostrogoth...
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a Young Gentleman Commencing His Education. S. Converse, 1823:105. Walter Goffart (1983), "The Supposedly 'Frankish' Table of Nations: An Edition and...
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the Elder in contrast mentions the Vandals but not the Lugii. Walter Pohl and Walter Goffart have noted that Ptolemy seems to distinguish the Silingi from...
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anonymous, but known to be by Grille and Musset-Pathay. (on the atlas) Walter Goffart, "Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years" (Chicago, 2003)...
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and some of theirs may well have come from elsewhere. There is, as Walter Goffart has repeatedly argued, little reason to believe that sixth-century or...
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name, perhaps having heard of the Gauts. It has been pointed out by Walter Goffart that Jordanes (V.38) also digresses specially to criticize stories going...
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