The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians

In print for more than thirty years, this book has long served as a standard text on the Germanic penetration of the Roman Empire. Bury's history is indispensable to anyone who seeks to understand the connection between the barbarian migrations of the third to the ninth century and the framework of modern Europe.

About the author

John Bagnell Bury, FBA was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his Later Roman Empire. He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin (1893-1902), before being Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge from 1902 until his death.

Summary

The classic study of how the Roman Empire gradually succumbed to barbarian encroachment.

Product details

• Authors: J. B. Bury, John Bagnell Bury
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2000
• EAN: 9780393003888
• ISBN: 978-0-393-00388-8
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 434 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Rom, Europäische Geschichte, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, History - General History