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标题：Matthias Friedrich / James M. Harland (eds.): Interrogating the 'Germanic'. A Category and its Use in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
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作者：Richard Broome
期刊名称：Sehepunkte : Rezensionsjournal für Geschichtswissenschaften
电子版ISSN：1618-6168
出版年度：2021
卷号：21
期号：5
语种：German
出版社：Herder-Institut, Institut für Zeitgeschichte
摘要：The word 'Germanic': even today it still conjures up images of vast, untamed forests and the equally untamed people who inhabited them. It also informs how many visualize the 'barbarians' who supposedly brought about the ruin of the Western Roman Empire: tall, muscular, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, fur-clad savages. Since the second half of the twentieth century, most scholarship has moved beyond such simplistic ideas, along with the equally simplistic dichotomy of civilized Romans vs. savage 'barbarians', and - for the most part - the idea of the fall of Rome has been replaced by the transformation of the Roman world.