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Author : HENRY BRADLEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Herwig Wolfram
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0520069838
Provides an overview on the formation of the Gothic tribes, their migrations, and the later history of the Ostrogothic and Visigothic settlements.
Author : Douglas Boin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393635706
Denied citizenship by the Roman Empire, a soldier named Alaric changed history by unleashing a surprise attack on the capital city of an unjust empire. Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent “barbarians” who destroyed “civilization,” at least in the conventional story of Rome’s collapse. But a slight shift of perspective brings their history, and ours, shockingly alive. Alaric grew up near the river border that separated Gothic territory from Roman. He survived a border policy that separated migrant children from their parents, and he was denied benefits he likely expected from military service. Romans were deeply conflicted over who should enjoy the privileges of citizenship. They wanted to buttress their global power, but were insecure about Roman identity; they depended on foreign goods, but scoffed at and denied foreigners their own voices and humanity. In stark contrast to the rising bigotry, intolerance, and zealotry among Romans during Alaric’s lifetime, the Goths, as practicing Christians, valued religious pluralism and tolerance. The marginalized Goths, marked by history as frightening harbingers of destruction and of the Dark Ages, preserved virtues of the ancient world that we take for granted. The three nights of riots Alaric and the Goths brought to the capital struck fear into the hearts of the powerful, but the riots were not without cause. Combining vivid storytelling and historical analysis, Douglas Boin reveals the Goths’ complex and fascinating legacy in shaping our world.
Author : Nick Groom
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191642395
The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home décor and contemporary fashion. Nick Groom shows how the Gothic has come to encompass so many meanings by telling the story of the Gothic from the ancient tribe who sacked Rome to the alternative subculture of the present day. This unique Very Short Introduction reveals that the Gothic has predominantly been a way of understanding and responding to the past. Time after time, the Gothic has been invoked in order to reveal what lies behind conventional history. It is a way of disclosing secrets, whether in the constitutional politics of seventeenth-century England or the racial politics of the United States. While contexts change, the Gothic perpetually regards the past with fascination, both yearning and horrified. It reminds us that neither societies nor individuals can escape the consequences of their actions. The anatomy of the Gothic is richly complex and perversely contradictory, and so the thirteen chapters here range deliberately widely. This is the first time that the entire story of the Gothic has been written as a continuous history: from the historians of late antiquity to the gardens of Georgian England, from the mediaeval cult of the macabre to German Expressionist cinema, from Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy to American consumer society, from folk ballads to vampires, from the past to the present. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Henry Bradley
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015031896676
Author : Arne Søby Christensen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 8772897104
This book is a study in the myth of the origins and early history of the Goths as told in the Getica written by Jordanes in AD 551. Jordanes claimed they emigrated from the island of Scandza (Sweden) in 1490 BC, thus giving them a history of more than two thousand years. He found this narrative in Cassiodorus' Gothic history, which is now lost. The present study demonstrates that Cassiodorus and Jordanes did not base their accounts on a living Gothic tradition of the past, as the Getica would have us believe. On the contrary, they got their information only from the Graeco-Roman literature. The Greeks and Romans, however, did not know of the Goths until the middle of the third century AD. Consequently, Cassiodorus and Jordanes created a Gothic history partly through an erudite exploitation of the names of foreign peoples, and partly by using the narratives about other peoples' history as if they belonged to the Goths. The history of the Migrations therefore must be reconsidered.
Author : Bradley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00013163
Author : Nancy Kilpatrick
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429976268
What you don't know about goths could fill a book! An artistic culture that revels in the Victorian romantic movement, The goth Bible brings to light the traditions and history of all that is goth. The goth culture has been one of the most controversial and maligned in media history. Presented as homicidal, suicidal and socio-pathic, in the national consciousness goths are coupled with everyone from Marilyn Mason to the murderers of Columbine. But this is not who the goths are. The goth Bible will help bridge the understanding between goths and non-goths. From their historical origins as a Germanic tribe in the sixth century who fought along side the Romans against the Huns to their current incarnation as creatures of the night, The goth Bible presents the most complete and broad perspective of this society, culled from hundreds of interviews with bands, artist, designers, and goths from all walks of life.
Author : Henry Bradley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Goths
ISBN : HARVARD:HW42I1
Author : HENRY. BRADLEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103302158X
Author : René Goscinny
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781444013108
Asterix and Obelix escort Getafix to the druids' annual conference in the Forest of the Carnutes. Little do they know that the Goths are lying in ambush, ready to kidnap the Druid of the Year - who of course is Getafix! But what with Gauls, Goths and Romans all at odds, it's hard to tell friend from foe... until Goths begin fighting Goths in the Asterixian Wars.
Author : Henry Bradley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1545365326
An integral part of history, but often in the background, is the roll of the Goths in the fall of the Roman empire and their continued contributions to society for the next two hundred years. The Story of the Goths details accounts of their impacts in Spain, Italy, and France. Bradley details these lasting influences include not only political powers, but religious powers. A full guide to any novice in Goth history. Henry Bradley is a scholar in the art of language. Already adept at several languages, he seemed to be able to learn Russian in fourteen days. Bradley later became the first assistant editor to work on the Oxford English Dictionary. He later became joint senior editor for the Oxford English Dictionary working alongside James Murray. Bradley continued to work until the day he suffered a stroke and died two days later in 1923.
Author : Henry Bradley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Goths
ISBN : UOM:39015005320315
Author : Henry Bradley
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1334997942
Excerpt from The Story of the Goths: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Gothic Dominion in Spain This little volume is, so far as I have been able to discover, the first English book expressly treating of the history of the Goths. Adequately
Author : Michael Bibby,Lauren M. E. Goodlad
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822389705
Since it first emerged from Britain’s punk-rock scene in the late 1970s, goth subculture has haunted postmodern culture and society, reinventing itself inside and against the mainstream. Goth: Undead Subculture is the first collection of scholarly essays devoted to this enduring yet little examined cultural phenomenon. Twenty-three essays from various disciplines explore the music, cinema, television, fashion, literature, aesthetics, and fandoms associated with the subculture. They examine goth’s many dimensions—including its melancholy, androgyny, spirituality, and perversity—and take readers inside locations in Los Angeles, Austin, Leeds, London, Buffalo, New York City, and Sydney. A number of the contributors are or have been participants in the subculture, and several draw on their own experiences. The volume’s editors provide a rich history of goth, describing its play of resistance and consumerism; its impact on class, race, and gender; and its distinctive features as an “undead” subculture in light of post-subculture studies and other critical approaches. The essays include an interview with the distinguished fashion historian Valerie Steele; analyses of novels by Anne Rice, Poppy Z. Brite, and Nick Cave; discussions of goths on the Internet; and readings of iconic goth texts from Bram Stoker’s Dracula to James O’Barr’s graphic novel The Crow. Other essays focus on gothic music, including seminal precursors such as Joy Division and David Bowie, and goth-influenced performers such as the Cure, Nine Inch Nails, and Marilyn Manson. Gothic sexuality is explored in multiple ways, the subjects ranging from the San Francisco queercore scene of the 1980s to the increasing influence of fetishism and fetish play. Together these essays demonstrate that while its participants are often middle-class suburbanites, goth blurs normalizing boundaries even as it appears as an everlasting shadow of late capitalism. Contributors: Heather Arnet, Michael Bibby, Jessica Burstein, Angel M. Butts, Michael du Plessis, Jason Friedman, Nancy Gagnier, Ken Gelder, Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Joshua Gunn, Trevor Holmes, Paul Hodkinson, David Lenson, Robert Markley, Mark Nowak, Anna Powell, Kristen Schilt, Rebecca Schraffenberger, David Shumway, Carol Siegel, Catherine Spooner, Lauren Stasiak, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock