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Empires and barbarians: the fall of Rome and the birth of Europe - P. J. Heather, 2012
Book | Core (Must 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)
Barbarian migrations and the Roman West, 376-568 - Guy Halsall, 2007
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The world of late antiquity: from Marcus Aurelius to Muhammad - Brown, Peter, 1971
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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
Constantine the Great: York's Roman emperor - Hartley, Elizabeth, Yorkshire Museum,
2006
Book
The Cambridge companion to the Age of Constantine - Lenski, Noel Emmanuel, 2006
Book | Background (Could Read)
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
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
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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
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
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 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
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
The excavation of the Roman fort at Reculver, Kent - Brian Philp, Richard Reece, Joanna
Bird, Kay Hartley, Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit, 2005
Book
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Hadrian's Wall and the end of empire: the Roman frontier in the 4th and 5th centuries -
Rob Collins, 2012
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
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
Roman Canterbury: a journey into the past - Harmsworth, Andy, Canterbury Archaeological
Trust, 1994 [reprinted 1995]
Book
Canterbury excavations: intra- and extra-mural sites, 1949-55 and 1980-84 - Frere,
Sheppard Sunderland, Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1987
Book
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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
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
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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The transformation of the Roman world AD 400-900 - Leslie Webster, Michelle P. Brown,
1997
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
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
Excavations on the site of the Roman signal station at Carr Naze, Filey 1993-4 - P. Ottaway
Article
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
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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
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
Settlement mobility and the "Middle Saxon shift": rural settlements and settlement
patterns in Anglo-Saxon England - Hamerow, H., 1991
Article
Anglo-Saxon studies in archaeology and history: 1-2 - Hawkes, Sonia C., Brown, David,
Campbell, James, 1979-81
Book | Read pages 21-37
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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.
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
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
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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)
War and society in the Roman world - John Rich, Graham Shipley, 1993
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | chapter 12
Sidonius Apollinaris, Theodoric II and Gothic Roman politics from Avitus to Anthemius -
Sivan, H., 1989
Article
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The Roman West, AD 200-500: an archaeological study - Simon Esmonde Cleary, 2013
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
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
Frankish royal tombs in the cathedrals of Cologne and St. Denis. - Werner, J., 1964
Article
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
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
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)
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'
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 fall of Rome: and the end of civilization - Ward-Perkins, Bryan, 2005
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The Constitutional History of England, in its Origin and Development: Volume 3 - William
Stubbs, 1878
Book
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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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
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
428 AD: an ordinary year at the end of the Roman Empire - Traina, Giusto, c2009
Book
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
Sacred fortress: Byzantine art and statecraft in Ravenna - Simson, Otto von, 1987
Book
Art and the Roman viewer: the transformation of art from the Pagan world to Christianity -
Elsner,
Ja
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s, 1995
Book | General reading, also pp. 251-270, 221-239
Refiguring the post classical city: Dura Europos, Jerash, Jerusalem and Ravenna - Wharton,
Annabel Jane, 1995
Book | General reading, especially ch. 4
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