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Walter Goffart is a historian of the later Roman Empire
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
 and the early Middle Ages
Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
 who specializes in research on the barbarian
Barbarian

"Barbarian" is a pejorative term for an uncivilized person, either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos, typically a tribal society as seen by an urban civilization either viewed as inferior, or admired as a noble savage....
 kingdoms of those periods. He is a senior research scholar and lecturer at Yale University
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
.

He is a 1955 graduate of Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
, where he also received his doctorate in 1961. He taught history at the University of Toronto
University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public university research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated a mile north of the city's Financial District, Toronto on grounds that surround Queen's Park ....
 from 1960 to 1999 and joined the history faculty of Yale in 2000.

Alexander C. Murray edited a Festschrift
Festschrift

In academia, a wikt:festschrift is a book honoring a respected academic and presented during his or her lifetime. The term, borrowed from German language, could be translated as celebration publication or celebratory writing....
 for Goffart called After Rome's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History (1999).








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Walter Goffart is a historian of the later Roman Empire
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
 and the early Middle Ages
Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
 who specializes in research on the barbarian
Barbarian

"Barbarian" is a pejorative term for an uncivilized person, either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos, typically a tribal society as seen by an urban civilization either viewed as inferior, or admired as a noble savage....
 kingdoms of those periods. He is a senior research scholar and lecturer at Yale University
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
.

He is a 1955 graduate of Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
, where he also received his doctorate in 1961. He taught history at the University of Toronto
University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public university research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated a mile north of the city's Financial District, Toronto on grounds that surround Queen's Park ....
 from 1960 to 1999 and joined the history faculty of Yale in 2000.

Alexander C. Murray edited a Festschrift
Festschrift

In academia, a wikt:festschrift is a book honoring a respected academic and presented during his or her lifetime. The term, borrowed from German language, could be translated as celebration publication or celebratory writing....
 for Goffart called After Rome's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History (1999).

Selected bibliography

  • The Le Mans Forgeries (1966)
  • Caput and Colonate (1974)
  • Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584: The Techniques of Accommodation (1980)
  • Hetware and Hugas: Datable Anachronisms i Beowulf in "The Dating of Beowulf", ed. Colin Chase (1981).
  • The Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 550-800): Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon (1988)
  • Rome's Fall and After (1989)
  • Barbarian Tides: the Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire (2006)


External links

  • at Yale University