The visigoths from the migration period to the seventh century

"Between 376 and 476 the Roman Empire in western Europe was dismantled by aggressive outsiders, 'barbarians' as the Romans labelled them. Chief among these were the Visigoths. The Visigoths were actually a new force constructed out of a number of previously separate Gothic and other groups in the period c. 376-410, who were initially settled by the Roman state as autonomous subordinates in a corner of south-western France in 418." "The studies comprising this volume cover most of the important questions thrown up by the history of the Visigoths and of the kingdom they generated. Between them, these different studies also adopt a wide variety of approaches, encompassing and discussing most of the major types of source material - both literary and archaeological - currently available for reconstructing Visigothic history."--Jacket.