Kingdoms of the Empire: The Integration of Barbarians in Late Antiquity

by Walter Pohl (Editor)

Since Edward Gibbon, the degree of disruption or gradual change at the end of antiquity has been vehemently debated. Did Rome fall, or was it only transformed. Was the Empire destroyed by barbarians or was its decay inevitable for internal reasons? By carefully formulating answers to these and other seminal questions, Kingdoms of the Empire will prove an indispensable tool to both classical and medieval scholars.
This is the first volume in a new and important monograph series, The Transformation of the Roman World .

Genres: History

230 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Walter Pohl is an Austrian historian. His area of expertise is the history of the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages.

Pohl is director of the Institut für Mittelalterforschung (Institute for Middle Ages Research) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences as well as a university professor of history of the Middle Ages and historical subsidiary sciences at the historical-culture-scientific faculty at the University of Vienna. In the year 2004 he was awarded the Wittgenstein-Preis. Since the summer 2002 he is an Austrian representative in the Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation (ESF) as well as delegates in the general assembly of the ESF.