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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Walter Andre Goffart is a German-born American historian who specializes in Late Antiquity and the European Middle Ages. He taught for many years in the history department and Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Toronto , and is currently a senior research scholar at Yale University. He is the author of monographs on a ninth-century forgery , late Roman taxation , four "barbarian" historians, and historical atlases.
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- Feudal Society (1963) (175)
- Byzantine Policy in the West under Tiberius II and Maurice: The Pretenders Hermenegild and Gundovald (579–585) (1957) (116)
- A History of the Ostrogoths (1984) (103)
- Rome, Constantinople, and the Barbarians (1981) (93)
- The Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 550-800): Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon (1988) (92)
- Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584: The Techniques of Accommodation (1980) (90)
- Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire (2006) (83)
- Caput and Colonate: Towards a History of Late Roman Taxation (1976) (80)
- OLD AND NEW IN MEROVINGIAN TAXATION (1982) (78)
- Zosimus, The First Historian of Rome's Fall (1971) (73)
- The Theme of “The Barbarian Invasions” in Late Antique and Modern Historiography (1989) (67)
- Did Julian Combat Venal Suffragium? A Note on CTh 2. 29. 1 (1970) (56)
- Two Notes on Germanic Antiquity Today (1995) (56)
- From Roman Taxation to Mediaeval Seigneurie: Three Notes (Part II) (1972) (44)
- Rome's Fall And After (1989) (39)
- The Le Mans Forgeries: A Chapter from the History of Church Property in the Ninth Century (1966) (37)
- The Fredegar Problem Reconsidered (1963) (27)
- The Date and Purpose of Vegetius' ‘De re militari’ (1977) (23)
- Paul the Deacon's ‘Gesta Episcoporum Mettensium’ and the Early Design of Charlemagne's Succession (1986) (18)
- Frankish military duty and the fate of Roman taxation (2008) (15)
- The Technique of Barbarian Settlement in the Fifth Century: A Personal, Streamlined Account with Ten Additional Comments (2010) (15)
- Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570-1870 (2003) (15)
- The Roman Economy, Studies in Ancient Economic and Administrative History (1976) (14)
- The Supposedly ‘Frankish’ Table of Nations: An Edition and Study (1983) (14)
- Jordanes's "Getica" and the Disputed Authenticity of Gothic Origins from Scandinavia (2005) (14)
- Rome's Final Conquest: The Barbarians (2008) (13)
- Does the Distant Past Impinge on the Invasion Age Germans (2002) (12)
- Charters Earlier than 800 from French Collections (1990) (11)
- Historical atlases (1994) (8)
- From Historiae to Historia Francorum and Back Again : Aspects of the Textual History of Gregory of Tours in Religion, Culture and Society in the Early Middle Ages. Studies in Honor of Richard E. Sullivan. (1987) (8)
- The Early Growth of the European Economy: Warriors and Peasants from the Seventh to the Twelfth Century by Georges Duby (review) (2016) (8)
- Hetware and Hugas: Datable Anachronisms in Beowulf (1997) (6)
- Bede's uera lex historiae explained (2005) (6)
- Salvian of Marseille, De gubernatione dei 5.38-45 and the “colonate” problem (2009) (5)
- Christian Pessimism on the Walls of the Vatican Galleria delle carte geografiche (1998) (4)
- Foreigners in the Histories of Gregory of Tours (1982) (3)
- Le Mans, St. Scholastica, and the literary Tradition of the Translation of St. Benedict (1967) (3)
- The Ostrogoths from the Migration Period to the Sixth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective (2009) (3)
- The Name ‘Merovingian’ and the Dating of Beowulf (2007) (3)
- THE BARBARIANS IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND HOW THEY WERE ACCOMMODATED IN THE WEST (2020) (3)
- The Agricultural Crisis in Lower Canada, 1802–12: Mise au point. A Response to T.J.A. Le Goff (1975) (2)
- Gregory IV for Aldric of Le Mans (833): A Genuine or Spurious Decretal? (1966) (2)
- The Map of the Barbarian Invasions: A Preliminary Report. (1988) (2)
- Administrative Methods of Barbarian Settlement in the Fifth Century: The Definitive Account (2013) (2)
- From Roman Taxation to Mediaeval Seigneurie: Three Notes (Part I) (1972) (2)
- M. McCormick, Eternal Victory: Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium and the Early Medieval West (2005) (2)
- The Frankish Pretender Gundovald, 582–585: A Crisis of Merovingian Blood (2012) (1)
- »Defensio patriae« As a carolingian military obligation (2016) (1)
- Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584 (2020) (1)
- The Subdivisions of Trevet's Cronicles in Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 10 (1982) (1)
- Chapter 4. Jordanes's Getica and the Disputed Authenticity of Gothic Origins from Scandinavia (2006) (1)
- The Nature of History in Ancient Greece and Rome, by Charles William Fornara (1985) (1)
- Gregory of Tours: History and Society in the Sixth Century (review) (2002) (1)
- The Genesis of John Speed's Maps of Battles in England and Ireland (2004) (1)
- Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. A historical commentary . By J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, ed. T. Charles-Edwards, P. Wormald and others. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) Pp. xiii + 299. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. £30. 0 19 822269 6 (1990) (1)
- The Crucible of Europe. The Ninth and Tenth Centuries in European History, by Geoffrey Barraclough (1976) (0)
- of Medieval and Renaissance Studies Title Debating the Middle Ages : Issues and Readings (2006) (0)
- Frankish Institutions under Charlemagne. François Louis Ganshof (1970) (0)
- Chapter 3. An Entrenched Myth of Origins: The Germans before Germany (2006) (0)
- Robert Folz, avec la collaboration de André Guillou, Lucien Musset, Dominique Sourdel, De l'antiquité au monde médiéval . (Peuples et civilisations, v.) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1972. Pp. 657; 8 maps. F 69. (1975) (0)
- The Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe, edited by Rosamond McKitterick (1991) (0)
- The Literary Adventures of St. Liborius. A postscript to the le mans forgeries (1969) (0)
- The Privilege of Nicolas I for St. Calais: A New Theory (1961) (0)
- 2. Breaking the Ortelian Pattern: Historical Atlases with a New Program, 1747-1830 (1995) (0)
- The Transformation of the Roman World: Gibbons Problem after Two Centuries (1967) (0)
- The Transformation of the Roman World: Gibbon’s Problem after Two Centuries ed. by Lynn White, Jr. (review) (2016) (0)
- Rosamond McKitterick. Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2008. Pp. xviii, 460. Cloth $90.00, paper $29.99 (2009) (0)
- Pizarro, Joachím Martínez, A Rhetoric of the Scene: Dramatic Narrative in the Early Middle Ages (1991) (0)
- Chapter 7. None of Them Were Germans: Northern Barbarians in Late Antiquity (2006) (0)
- Michael Richter. The Formation of the Medieval West: Studies in the Oral Culture of the Barbarians. New York: St. Martin's. 1994. Pp. xiii, 292. $49.95 (1997) (0)
- Commercial reprints : Click here Terms of use : Click here Historical atlases : the rst three hundred years , 1570 – 1870 (2005) (0)
- John Moorhead. Theoderic in Italy. New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press. 1992. Pp. 300. $65.00 (1994) (0)
- Saint Germanus of Auxerre and the End of Roman Britain. E. A. Thompson (1986) (0)
- Feudal Society by Marc Bloch (review) (2016) (0)
- When Did Historical Atlases Really Originate (2007) (0)
- Chapter 5. The Great Rhine Crossing, A.D. 400-420, a Case of Barbarian Migration (2006) (0)
- B. Bischoff, Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages (1991) (0)
- Chapter 1. A Clarification: The Three Meanings of “Migration Age” (2006) (0)
- Barbarians, Maps, and Historiography: Studies on the Early Medieval West (2009) (0)
- Chapter 2. A Recipe on Trial: “The Germans Overthrow the Roman Empire” (2006) (0)
- Allegorizing History: The Venerable Bede, Figural Exegesis and Historical Theory by Timothy J. Furry (review) (2016) (0)
- From 1700, New Departures (2003) (0)
- Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America (1986) (0)
- C. W. Fornara, The Nature of History in Ancient Greece and Rome (1985) (0)
- Great Invasions, map showing origins of (2013) (0)
- Chapter 6. The “Techniques of Accommodation” Revisited (2006) (0)
- The Goths in Spain by E. A. Thompson (review) (2016) (0)
- Comptes rendus - After Rome's fall. Narrators and sources of early medieval history. Essays // (2002) (0)
- The Middle Ages in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Maps (2003) (0)
- Appendix 2: Chronicle Evidence for the Burgundian Settlement (2006) (0)
- Chapter 8. Conclusion: The Long Simplification of Late Antiquity (2006) (0)
- The Recruitment of Freemen into the Carolingian Army, or, How Far May One Argue from Silence? (2018) (0)
- Appendix 1: Alexander Demandt on the Role of the Germans in the End of the Roman Empire (2006) (0)
- The Front Matter of J. G. Hagelgans's 1718 Atlas historicus at the Princeton University Library and the Eran Laor Cartographic Collection, Jerusalem (2002) (0)
- of Medieval and Renaissance Studies Title Debating the Middle Ages : Issues and Readings ( review ) (2006) (0)
- thomas s. burns. A History of the Ostrogoth. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1984. Pp. xvii, 299. $19.95 (1985) (0)
- Jill N. Claster, The Medieval Experience: 300–1400. New York and London: New York University Press, 1982. Pp. xvi, 398; frontispiece and numerous black-and-white illustrations. $32.50 (cloth); $15 (paper). Distributed by Columbia University Press. (1984) (0)
- J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, The Long-Haired Kings and Other Studies of Frankish History . New York: Barnes and Noble, 1962. Pp. 261; frontispiece plate. $6. (1964) (0)
- Reviews of books: Ancient (1993) (0)
- Appendix 3: The Meaning of agri cum mancipiis in the Burgundian Kingdom (2006) (0)
- Jean Devisse, Hincmar, archévêque de Reims, 845–882, I, II, III . (Travaux d'histoire ethico-politique, XXIX.) Geneva: Droz, 1975, 1976. Paper. I: Pp. 564. II: Pp. 565–1137. III: Appendices, Bibliographic et Index. Pp. 1138–1585; 8 illustrations, 18 tables, 19 maps. (1979) (0)
- The Cambridge Medieval History. IV. The Byzantine Empire. Part I. Byzantium and Its Neighbours. Second Edition. ed. by J. Hussey (review) (1967) (0)
- 10.08.06, Heather, Empires and Barbarians (2010) (0)
- Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Atlases Relevant to History (2003) (0)
- A Map of the Empire of Charlemagne, Allegedly of 1629, at the Società Geografica Italiana (2005) (0)
- Eighteenth-Century Maps of the Middle Ages (2003) (0)
- "The Fredegar Problem reconsidered", Walter Goffart, "Speculum" 38 (1963) : [recenzja] / Gerard Labuda. (1965) (0)
- Historical Atlases Come of Age (2003) (0)
- 09.02.08, Collins, Die Fredegar-Chroniken (2009) (0)
- Private Life: From Rome to Byzantium (2014) (0)
- Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World, by Patrick J. Geary (2016) (0)
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