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200 items

Core Texts (4 items)


The fall of the Roman Empire - Heather, P. J., 2005
Book | Core (Must Read) | Recommended for purchase.

The Roman West, AD 200-500: an archaeological study - A. S. Esmonde Cleary, 2013


Book | Core (Must Read)

Empires and barbarians: the fall of Rome and the birth of Europe - P. J. Heather, 2012
Book | Core (Must Read)

Early medieval Europe, 300-1000 - Collins, Roger, 1999


Book | Core (Must Read) | General reading. Various chapters cited throughout reading
list,, ch. 2, ch. 6, ch.7., ch. 11; pp 47-60, 111-115, 161-172, 105-111, 129-134.

General Reading (14 items)


The fall of the Western Roman Empire: an archaeological and historical perspective - Neil
Christie, 2011
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The transformation of the Roman world AD 400-900 - Webster, Leslie, Brown, Michelle P.,
1997
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Cambridge Ancient History: Late antiquity: empire and successors, A.D.425-600, Vol.
14 - Cameron, Averil, Whitby, Michael, Ward-Perkins, Bryan, 2000
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The later Roman Empire: an archaeology, AD 150-600 - Reece, Richard, 1999


Book | Recommended (Should Read) | General reading, also specific chapters cited
throughout reading list: ch. 9, ch. 2, ch. 5 pp 173-184, also pp. 102-4, ch. 4 & 6, chapter
on mosaics

Barbarian migrations and the Roman West, 376-568 - Guy Halsall, 2007
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Later Roman Empire, AD 284-430 - Cameron, Averil, 1993


Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The world of late antiquity: from Marcus Aurelius to Muhammad - Brown, Peter, 1971

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Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The late Roman world and its historian: interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus - Jan Willem
Drijvers, David Hunt, 1999
Book

The first millennium A.D. in Europe and the Mediterranean: an archaeological essay -
Randsborg, Klavs, 1991
Book

The barbarian West, 400-1000 - Wallace-Hadrill, J. M., 1985


Book | General reading, also specific sections cited throughout reading list, pp 13-20,
ch. 4, ch. 3

A summary catalogue of the continental archeological collections (Roman iron age,


migration period, early medieval) - MacGregor, Arthur, Ashmolean Museum, 1997
Book

Constantine the Great: York's Roman emperor - Hartley, Elizabeth, Yorkshire Museum,
2006
Book

Diocletian and the tetrarchy - Roger Rees, 2004


Book | Background (Could Read)

The Cambridge companion to the Age of Constantine - Lenski, Noel Emmanuel, 2006
Book | Background (Could Read)

Barbarian origins (17 items)


The barbarians speak: how the conquered peoples shaped Roman Europe - Wells, Peter S.,
1999
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading: Chapter 10

Resources, power, and interregional interaction - Edward M. Schortman, Patricia A. Urban,


c1992
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading: Chapter 8 by Wells

Centre and periphery in the ancient world - M. J. Rowlands, Mogens Trolle Larsen, Kristian
Kristiansen, 1987
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading: Chapter 11 by Hedeager

Beyond the Roman empire: archaeological discoveries in Gudme on Fune, Denmark - K


Randsborg
Article | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading

Empires and barbarians: the fall of Rome and the birth of Europe - P. J. Heather, 2012
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading: chapters 2-3

The Huns - Thompson, E. A., 1999, repr. 2000


Book

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The Goths in the fourth century - Heather, P. J., Matthews, John, c1991
Book

The later Roman Empire: A.D. 354-378 - Walter Hamilton, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill,
Ammianus Marcellinus, 1986
Book | Book 31.2 on the nature of the Huns and Alans

Barbarians and Romans: the birth struggle of Europe, A.D. 400-700 - Randers-Pehrson,
Justine Davis, 1983
Book | Chapter 2, The Steppes of Asia

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians - 2005
Book | chapter 2

[Getica] The Gothic history of Jordanes: in English version with an introduction and a
commentary; by C C Mierow - Jordanes, [1966]
Book | Read XXX- XXXI page 93 ff and XXXIII 178- XLIII, page 178 ff, XLIX pp 123-125

The Cambridge Medieval History, The Asiatic background, Chapter XII - Peisker, T.
Chapter

The Goths - Heather, P. J., 1998


Book | Chapter 2 most relevant to this week. See also chapters 4, 5, 8 and 9 to p.176

The early Germans - Todd, Malcolm, 1992


Book

Europe between late antiquity and the Middle Ages: recent archaeological and historical
research in Western and Southern Europe - Bintliff, J. L., Hamerow, Helena, University of
Durham, 1995
Book | Read pages 8-37, 71-83, 58-70, 38-57, 99-110

Iron-age societies: from tribe to state in northern Europe, 500 BC to AD 700 - Hedeager,
Lotte, 1992
Book

Roman gold and the development of the early Germanic kingdoms: aspects of technical,
socio-political, socio-economic, artistic, and intellectual development, A.D. 1-550 :
symposium in Stockholm, 14-16 November 1997 - Magnus, Bente, 2001
Book

Late Roman Western frontier (9 items)


An archaeology of identity: soldiers and society in late Roman Britain - Andrew Gardner,
University of London. Institute of Archaeology, 2005
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Roman West, AD 200-500: an archaeological study - A. S. Esmonde Cleary, 2013


Book | Recommended (Should Read) | chapter 2

The fall of the Western Roman Empire: an archaeological and historical perspective - Neil

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Christie, 2011
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | chapters 2 and 3

The late Roman army - Pat Southern, Karen R. Dixon, 2000, c1996
Book

The end of the Western Roman empire: an archaeological investigation - Swift, Ellen, 2000
Book | General reading

The Transformation of frontiers from late antiquity to the Carolingians - Pohl, Walter,
Wood, I. N., Reimitz, Helmut, 2001
Book

Death on the Rhine: changing burial customs in Cologne, 3rd-7th century -


Naumann-Steckner
Chapter

Death and burial in Gaul and Germania, 4th-8th century - Dierkins & Perin
Chapter

Shifting frontiers in late antiquity - Mathisen, Ralph W., Sivan, Hagith, 1996
Book | Read pages 45-48, 31-44

Saxon Shore Forts (6 items)


Saxon raiding and the role of the late Roman coastal forts of Britain - J. Cotterill
Article | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading

Barbarian Piracy and the Saxon Shore: A reappraisal - A.F. PEARSON, 2005
Article | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading

The Roman shore forts: coastal defences of southern Britain - Andrew Pearson, 2002
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading

The Saxon shore: a handbook - Maxfield, Valerie A., Bennett, P., 1989
Book

Excavations at Portchester Castle: Vol.1: Roman - Barry W. Cunliffe, 1975


Book

The excavation of the Roman fort at Reculver, Kent - Brian Philp, Richard Reece, Joanna
Bird, Kay Hartley, Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit, 2005
Book

End of Roman Britain (19 items)


Late Roman towns in Britain: rethinking change and decline - Adam Rogers, 2011
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading: chapters 7 and 8

My Roman Britain - Reece, Richard, 1988

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Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading: pp 123-155

The ending of Roman Britain - A. S. Esmonde Cleary, 1989


Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading: chapter 4

The Ruin of Roman Britain: An Archaeological Perspective - James Gerrard, 2013


Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Hadrian's Wall and the end of empire: the Roman frontier in the 4th and 5th centuries -
Rob Collins, 2012
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

A Gazetteer of sub-Roman Britain - C. Snyder, 1997


Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Early medieval Europe, 300-1000 - Collins, Roger, 1999


Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 11

Winchester studies: 3: Pre-Roman and Roman Winchester. Pt 2, The Roman cemetery at


Lankhills - Clarke, Giles, 1979
Book

Wroxeter: life and death of a Roman city - White, R. H., Barker, Philip, 1998
Book

Viroconium, Wroxeter Roman city, Shropshire - Webster, Graham, Barker, Philip, Great
Britain, 1978
Book

The Roman baths and Macellum at Wroxeter: excavations by Graham Webster 1955-85 -
Ellis, Peter, English Heritage, 2000
Book

Wroxeter Roman City excavations 1966 - 1980(Ed P Barker) - Environment- Dept of the,
1988
Book

Whitefriars Canterbury - Bennett, Hicks & Houliston, 2003


Article

Roman Canterbury: a journey into the past - Harmsworth, Andy, Canterbury Archaeological
Trust, 1994 [reprinted 1995]
Book

Urban continuity? - Ward-Perkins, B.


Chapter

Canterbury excavations: intra- and extra-mural sites, 1949-55 and 1980-84 - Frere,
Sheppard Sunderland, Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1987
Book

The Eastern Cemetery of Roman London: excavations 1983-1990 - Barber, Bruno,

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Bowsher, David, Museum of London Archaeology Service, 2000


Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Late Roman Cemetery at Lankhills, Winchester: Excavations 2000-2005 - Paul Booth
Book

Birdoswald: excavations of a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall and its successor settlements,
1987-92 - Tony Wilmott, Louise Hird, 1997
Book

Post-Roman Britain (18 items)


AD 410: the history and archaeology of late and post-Roman Britain - 2014
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading: chapters by Gerrard and Swift

Late Roman silver: the Traprain treasure in context - Society of Antiquaries of Scotland,
2013
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading: chapter 18 by Hobbs

The quoit brooch style and Anglo-Saxon settlement: a casting and recasting of cultural
identity symbols - Seiichi Suzuki, 2000
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading: chapters 1 and 5

Object biography, reuse and recycling in the late to post-Roman transition period in
Britain: rings made from Romano-British bracelets - E. Swift
Article | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading

The late Roman transition in the north: papers from the Roman Archaeology Conference,
Durham 1999 - Tony Wilmott, Peter Wilson, Roman Archaeology Conference, 2000
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading: chapter by Cool, also available
online at www.barbicanra.co.uk/shopimages/Documents/Parts%20left%20over.pdf

The Ruin of Roman Britain: An Archaeological Perspective - James Gerrard, 2013


Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Debating late antiquity in Britain AD300-700 - Rob Collins, James Gerrard, 2004
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | see especially chapter 8, though other chapters
are also relevant

Finds from the Frontier: Material Culture in the 4th - 5th Centuries - Collins, Rob. &
Allason-Jones, Lindsay, 2010
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The fall of the Western Roman Empire: an archaeological and historical perspective - Neil
Christie, 2011
Book | chapter 8 (sections on Post-Roman Britain)

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Britons in Anglo-Saxon England - Nick Higham, 2007


Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Continental and Mediterranean imports to Atlantic Britain and Ireland AD 400-800 -


Campbell, Ewan, Council for British Archaeology, 2007
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The transformation of the Roman world AD 400-900 - Leslie Webster, Michelle P. Brown,
1997
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Byzantium and Britain: a Mediterranean perspective on post-Roman Mediterranaean


imports in Western Britain and Ireland - Fulford, M., 1989
Article | WA8858

Life and labour in Late Roman Silchester: excavations in Insula IX since 1997 - M. G.
Fulford, Amanda Clarke, Hella Eckardt, Denise Allen, 2006
Book | Read Crummy 'The Small Finds' pp. 120-32

Cannington cemetery: excavations 1962-3 of prehistoric, Roman, post-Roman, and later


features at Cannington Park Quarry, near Bridgwater, Somerset - Rahtz, Philip, Hirst, S. M.,
Wright, Susan M., Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2000
Book | Read chapter 6

Excavations on the site of the Roman signal station at Carr Naze, Filey 1993-4 - P. Ottaway
Article

Excavations at Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, 1990-1999 - Barrowman, Rachel C., Batey,


Colleen E., Morris, Christopher D., Society of Antiquaries of London, 2007
Book

Post-Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England: burial practices reviewed - O'Brien, Elizabeth,


1999
Book

Gildas and Patrick (5 items)


St Patrick; his writings and Muirchu's Life; edited by A B E Hood - Patrick, St, 1978
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The ruin of Britain and other works - Gildas, 1978


Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Barbarian migrations and the Roman West, 376-568 - Guy Halsall, 2007
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Appendix on Gildas

The English conquest: Gildas and Britain in the fifth century - Higham, N. J., 1994
Book

Gildas: new approaches; ed by M Lapidge and D Dumville - M. Lapidge, 1984


Book

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Anglo-Saxon England /Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries (27 items)


"Warrior graves"? The Background of the Anglo-Saxon Weapon Burial Rite - H. Harke, 1990
Article | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading

The Oxford handbook of Anglo-Saxon archaeology - Helena Hamerow, David Alban Hinton,
Sally Crawford, 2011
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading: chapter 35 by Lucy

Burial rites, gender and the creation of kingdoms - Stoodley, N


Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading

The spindle and the spear: a critical enquiry into the construction and meaning of gender
in the early Anglo-Saxon burial rite - Stoodley, Nick, British Archaeological reports, 1999
Book

Anglo-Saxon studies in archaeology and history: 6: edited by William Filmer-Sankey -


Filmer-Sankey, William, Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, date of publication
not identified
Book | Read pages 56-63, 126-147, 107-111

Buildings and rural settlement - Rahtz, P.


Chapter | Also 1 copy at Tonbridge

An archaeology of the early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms - Arnold, C. J., 1997


Book | Also 1 copy at Tonbridge

Settlement mobility and the "Middle Saxon shift": rural settlements and settlement
patterns in Anglo-Saxon England - Hamerow, H., 1991
Article

Mucking: the Anglo-Saxon settlement - Hamerow, H., 1988


Article | WA8857

Excavations at Mucking: Vol. 2: The Anglo-Saxon settlement - Hamerow, Helena, English


Heritage, 1993
Book

Anglo-Saxon studies in archaeology and history: 1-2 - Hawkes, Sonia C., Brown, David,
Campbell, James, 1979-81
Book | Read pages 21-37

Yeavering: an Anglo-British centre of early Northumbria - Hope-Taylor, Brian, Great Britain,


1977
Book | Read chapter 5

The Grubenhaus in Anglo-Saxon England: an analysis and interpretation of the evidence


from a most distinctive building type - Tipper, Jess, 2004
Book

Churches on Roman buildings: Christian associations and Roman masonry in Anglo-Saxon


England - Bell, Tyler, 1998

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Article

The Anglo-Saxon way of death: burial rites in early England - Lucy, Sam, 2000
Book | Read pages 25-47, 133-139, 174-181, 158-165.

Anglo-Saxon studies in archaeology and history: 4: edited by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes,


James Campbell and David Brown - Hawkes, Sonia C., Campbell, James, Brown, David,
Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, date of publication not identified
Book | Read pages 1-58.

The becoming of the English: identity, material culture and language in early Anglo-Saxon
England - Hines, J.
Chapter

The Early Anglo-Saxon cemetery and later Saxon settlement at Springfield, Lyons, Essex -
Susan Tyler, 2005
Book

Buckland Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, Dover: excavations 1994 - Keith Parfitt, Trevor Anderson,
Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2012
Book

Dover: the Buckland Anglo-Saxon cemetery - Evison, Vera I., Historic Buildings &
Monuments Commission for England, 1987
Book

West Heslerton: the Anglian cemetery - Haughton, Christine, Powlesland, Dominic, 1999
Book

Wasperton: a Roman, British and Anglo-Saxon community in central England - M. O. H.


Carver, Catherine Hills, Jonathan Scheschkewitz, 2009
Book

Excavations at Mucking: Volume 3: The Anglo-Saxon cemeteries - S. M. Hirst, Dido Clark,


2009
Book

Excavations at Barrow Hills, Radley, Oxfordshire, 1983-5: Vol. 2: The Romano-British


cemetery and Anglo-Saxon settlement - Chambers, Richard, McAdam, Ellen, Barnetson,
Lyn, Hucker, Danny, Oxford Archaeology, University of Oxford, 2007
Book

The age of Sutton Hoo: the seventh century in north-western Europe - Carver, M. O. H.,
1992
Book | Read chapter 22.

Sutton Hoo: a seventh-century princely burial ground and its context - Carver, M. O. H.,
Evans, Angela, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2005
Book

The Anglo-Saxon cemeteries of Kent - Richardson, Andrew, 2005


Book

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Huns and Visigoths (6 items)


The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians - 2005
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | chapters 4 5 and 7

Early medieval Europe, 300-1000 - Roger Collins, 1999


Book | Recommended (Should Read) | chapters 3 and 4

The Huns - E. A. Thompson, 1999, repr. 2000


Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The fragmentary classicising historians of the later Roman Empire: Eunapius,


Olympiodorus,Priscus and Malchus; by R C Blockley - R. C. Blockley, 1981-83
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Barbarian migrations and the Roman West, 376-568 - Guy Halsall, 2007
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Empires and barbarians: migration, development and the birth of Europe - Heather, P. J.,
2010
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Sidonius Apollinaris (8 items)


The Letters of Sidonius Volume 1 - Saint 431 or 2 Sidonius Apollinaris, O M Dalton, 2011
Book | See also Loeb e-books online, via the library catalogue

The Letters of Sidonius, Volume 2 - Saint Sidonius Apollinaris, 2011


Book | See also Loeb e-books online, via the library catalogue

Roman aristocrats in barbarian Gaul: strategies for survival in an age of transition -


Mathisen, Ralph Whitney, 1993
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | chapters 1 and 3

From Roman to Merovingian Gaul: a reader - Murray, Alexander Callander, 2000


Book | Recommended (Should Read) | chapter 8

Readings in late antiquity: a sourcebook - Michael Maas, 2000


Book | Recommended (Should Read) | chapter 12

War and society in the Roman world - John Rich, Graham Shipley, 1993
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | chapter 12

The Merovingian kingdoms, 450-751 - Wood, I. N., 1994


Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Read chapter 2

Sidonius Apollinaris, Theodoric II and Gothic Roman politics from Avitus to Anthemius -
Sivan, H., 1989
Article

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Gaul & Frankish/Visigothic Kingdoms (18 items)


Before France and Germany: the creation and transformation of the Merovingian world -
Geary, Patrick J., 1988
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The history of the Franks - Gregory of Tours, Thorpe, Lewis, 1974


Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Roman West, AD 200-500: an archaeological study - Simon Esmonde Cleary, 2013
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Merovingian kingdoms, 450-751 - Wood, I. N., 1994


Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Read pages 450-751

The transformation of the Roman world AD 400-900 - Leslie Webster, Michelle P. Brown,
1997
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Death ritual and Germanic social structure (c. AD 200-600) - Ravn, Mads, 2003
Book

Childeric's grave, Clovis' succession and the origins of the Merovingian kingdom - Halsall,
G.
Chapter

The Franks - James, Edward, 1988


Book | pp 58-64 on Childeric

Frankish royal tombs in the cathedrals of Cologne and St. Denis. - Werner, J., 1964
Article

Les Fouilles du quartier Saint-Brice a Tournai. L'environment funeraire de la sepulture de


Childeric 1, Raymond Brulet - Young, B., 1992
Journal | Review

Merovingian mortuary archaeology and the making of the early Middle Ages - Effros,
Bonnie, 2003
Book

Rituals of power: from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages - Theuws, F., Nelson, Janet L.,
2000
Book

Three Portrait Gems - Breckenridge, J., 1979


Journal | (note error in article: captions to figures 14 and 15 need to be transposed;
available through JSTOR)

Current research on the Romanization of the Western Provinces - Wood, Mark, Queiroga,
Francisco, 1992
Book | Read pages 9-24

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Recent research on the late antique countryside - William Bowden, Luke Lavan, Carlos
Machado, 2004
Book

Rural settlement and economy in northern Gaul in the late Empire: an overview and
assessment. - Van Ossel, P. and Ouzoulias, P., 2000
Article

The Roman remains of Northern and Eastern France: a guidebook - Bromwich, James, 2003
Book

Rome in the Pyrenees: Lugdunum and the Convenae from the first century B.C. to the
seventh century A.D. - Esmonde Cleary, A. S., 2008
Book

Archaeological evidence for barbarians within the Western Roman


Empire (9 items)
People on the move in Roman Britain - Hella Eckardt, Gundula Müldner, Mary Lewis, 2014
Article | Recommended (Should Read) | Seminar Reading

Roman diasporas: archaeological approaches to mobility and diversity in the Roman


empire - Hella Eckardt, 2010
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Roman West AD 200-500: An Archaeological Study - Simon Esmonde Cleary, 2013
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | pp386-394

Barbarian migrations and the Roman West, 376-568 - Guy Halsall, 2007
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Foreigners in early Medieval Europe: thirteen international studies on early Medieval


mobility - Quast, Dieter,
Ro
̈
misch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, 2009
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Rituals of power: from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages - F. Theuws, Janet L. Nelson,
2000
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | read section Theuws and Alkemade 'A kind of
mirror for men: sword depositions in late antique NE Gaul'

Early medieval cemeteries: an introduction to burial archaeology in the post-Roman West -


Halsall, Guy, 1995
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

From Attila to Charlemagne: arts of the early medieval period in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art - Brown, Katharine Reynolds, Kidd, Dafydd, Little, Charles T., Metropolitan Museum
of Art (New York, N.Y), 2000
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Read pp 78-89, 102-119. Also available online via

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the Metropolitan Museum of Art website

Fifth-century Gaul: a crisis of identity? - Drinkwater, J. F., Elton, Hugh, 1992


Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter by Halsall on the
'Reihengraberzivilisation'

Perceptions of the barbarians in history (8 items)


The myth of nations: the Medieval origins of Europe - Geary, Patrick J., 2002 rep. 2003
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries of East Yorkshire: an analysis and reinterpretation -


Lucy, Sam, 1998
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 2 on national identities

The fall of Rome: and the end of civilization - Ward-Perkins, Bryan, 2005
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

National identity - Smith, Anthony David, 1991


Book

Anglo-Saxon art to A. D. 900 - Thomas Downing Kendrick, 1938


Book

Early Anglo-Saxon art and archaeology - E. Thurlow Leeds, 1970


Book

The Constitutional History of England, in its Origin and Development: Volume 3 - William
Stubbs, 1878
Book

Archaeologies of remembrance: death and memory in past societies - Howard Williams,


2003
Book | read Effros 'Memories of the early medieval past' 255-280

Ostrogoths in Italy (15 items)


Rome's fall and after - Goffart, Walter, 1989
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Read chapters 1, 5 and 6

People and identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554 - Amory, Patrick, 1997


Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Read pp. 489-554

Early medieval Italy: central power and local society, 400-1000 - Wickham, Chris, 1981
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The fall of the Western Roman Empire: an archaeological and historical perspective - Neil
Christie, 2011
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

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From Constantine to Charlemagne: an archaeology of Italy, AD 300-800 - Christie, Neil,


c2006
Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Gothic wars, Books V-VIII - Procopius


Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Early Christian chapels in the west: decoration, function and patronage - Mackie, Gillian
Vallance, c2003
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | pp168-172 on the Mausoleum of Theoderic

Towards a history of Theodoric's building program - Johnson, M., 1988


Article

Landscapes of change: rural evolutions in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages -
Christie, Neil, 2004
Book

Recent research on the late antique countryside - Bowden, William, Lavan, Luke, Machado,
Carlos, 2004
Book

Barren fields? Landscapes and settlement in late Roman and post-Roman Italy, 254-83 -
Christie, N.
Chapter

Recent research on the late antique countryside - Bowden, William, Lavan, Luke, Machado,
Carlos, 2004
Book

Vanishing villas: what happened to elite rural habitation in the West in the 5th-6th c.? -
Lewit, T., 2003
Article

Late antique trade: research methodologies and field practices - Kingsley, S.


Chapter

428 AD: an ordinary year at the end of the Roman Empire - Traina, Giusto, c2009
Book

Art & Culture in Late Antiquity (17 items)


Early Christian & Byzantine art - Lowden, John, 1997
Book

Family fictions in Roman art - Natalie Kampen, 2009


Book | chapter 6 on the Stilicho diptych

The Hoxne treasure: an illustrated introduction - Bland, Roger, Johns, Catherine, 1993
[reprinted 1995]
Book

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Late antique and early Christian book illumination - Weitzmann, Kurt, 1977
Book

Late fourth century classicism in the plastic arts: studies in the so-called Theodosian
renaissance - Kiilerich, Bente, 1993
Book | Read ch. 11

Byzantium: treasures of Byzantine art and culture from British collections - Buckton, David,
1994
Book | read pp. 74-79, 33-40

The Canterbury late Roman treasure - Johns & Potter


Chapter

Sacred fortress: Byzantine art and statecraft in Ravenna - Simson, Otto von, 1987
Book

Commentaries on Roman art: selected studies - Brilliant, Richard, 1994


Book

Procopius and the imperial panels of San Vitale - Treadgold, W.


Chapter

The imperial panels at San Vitale: a reconsideration - Barber, C., 1990


Article

Art and the Roman viewer: the transformation of art from the Pagan world to Christianity -
Elsner,
Ja
́
s, 1995
Book | General reading, also pp. 251-270, 221-239

God and gold in late antiquity - Janes, Dominic, 1998


Book | General reading, also pp. 26-31 on Imperial dress and 105-152 on gold ground
mosaics

Art and ceremony in late antiquity - MacCormack, Sabine G., 1981


Book

Refiguring the post classical city: Dura Europos, Jerash, Jerusalem and Ravenna - Wharton,
Annabel Jane, 1995
Book | General reading, especially ch. 4

Rome: profile of a city - Krautheimer, R., 1980


Book

Early medieval architecture - Stalley, Roger, 1999


Book

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