Walter Goffart

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Walter Goffart is a historian of the later Roman Empire and the early Middle Ages who specializes in research on the barbarian kingdoms of those periods. He is a senior research scholar and lecturer at Yale University.

He is a 1955 graduate of Harvard University, where he also received his doctorate in 1961. He taught history at the University of Toronto from 1960 to 1999 and joined the history faculty of Yale in 2000.

Alexander C. Murray edited a Festschrift for Goffart called After Rome's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History (1999).

[edit] Selected bibliography

• The Le Mans Forgeries (1966)
• Caput and Colonate (1974)
• Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584: The Techniques of Accommodation (1980)
• Hetware and Hugas: Datable Anachronisms i Beowulf in "The Dating of Beowulf", ed. Colin Chase (1981).
• The Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 550-800): Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon (1988)
• Rome's Fall and After (1989)
• Barbarian Tides: the Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire (2006)

[edit] External links

• Walter Goffart at Yale University