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[WEB:Medieval Sourcebook:Early Germanic States]

I. Geography

II. The Barbarians and the Western Empire
  1. Barbarian Customs and Institutions [TXT:
    2. Tacitus: Germania]
    1. Daily Life [TXT: Sidonius Apollinaris: "Country House Life in Gaul" and "A Visigothic King"]
    2. Law [TXT:Law of the Salian Franks]
    3. War bands

III. Migration and Settlement [IMG:The Mediterranean World on Eve of Germanic Invasions]
  1. Movements [TXT: Priscus: On the Palace of Attila the Hun, 448 CE]
  2. Sack of Rome [TXT: Procopius of Caesarea (c.500-after 562 CE): Alaric's Sack of Rome, 410 CE] [TXT: Text: Pope Leo I and Attila: Two Accounts, 452 CE]

IV. Theodoric [TXT: Jordanes: Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths][TXT: Theodoric (r.493-526 CE): Selected Letters]
  1. Clovis [TXT:The Conversion of Clovis: Two Accounts, 496 CE][IMG:Baptism of Clovis]

V. The Decline of the Western Empire
  1. Decline [TXT: Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330-395 CE): History, XIV.16: The Luxury of the Rich in Rome, c. 400]
    1. Political Reasons
    2. Military Reasons [TXT: Ammianus Marcellinus (330-395 CE): The Battle of Adrianople, 378 CE]
    3. Social Economic Reasons [TXT: Salvian: The Burden of Taxation]





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