September 27 -- Barbarians

The Other: the creation of the Self
*language
*mores
*politics
boundary shifts

creating the boundaries

"Germans" from Tacitus to the Middle Ages

symbiosis of cultures

Roman/barbarian relations in Gaul in the time of Julian

Visigoths
ethnogenesis: from 378-410
Arbogast to Athaulf

Vandals 406-430

Huns (see Priscus): a whole
different map
Aetius/451/Catalaunian Plains

Ostrogothic ethnogenesis