- Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire by Walter Goffart (2006; ISBN 978-0812221053) Advanced Political Social Military – Barbarian Tides is the modernized version of Walter Goffart’s 1980 work Barbarians and Romans A.D. 418–584: The Techniques of Accommodation, focusing on his theory of the operation of Hospitalitas and the precise method of settlement of Germanic peoples within the Roman empire. In short, Goffart’s work sharply contrasts with the traditional interpretations of “settlement” and his lambasting of his critics is worth the read alone. Empires and Barbarians by Peter Heather (2009; ISBN 978-0199892266) Intermediate Political Social – Heather’s work begins with the Late Antique period and the transition to the post-Roman Germanic states, as well as the concurrent goings-on within the Germanic world itself; it then deals with the growth of Slavic Europe in the Middle Ages to the 10th century, and the interactions between the Slavic world and the Holy Roman Empire. Heather uses the available historical sources and physical remains to address both the old Volkswanderung model and the modern reaction against the same to suggest a model by which large-scale migration of variably porous societies can be seen to interact with the presence of a large, economically-developed predatory imperial entity. Of interest to readers on Rome in particular is the first section, dealing in great detail with groups such as the Goths, Vandals, and Saxons, their interactions with the Roman Empire, and the destabilizing influence of the Huns. Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568 by Guy Halsall (2005; ISBN 978-052143543) Intermediate Political Social – A detailed statement of the ‘modern’ view that downplays the role Women in Late Antiquity: Pagan and Christian Life-Styles by Gillian Clark (1993; ISBN 9780198721666) This book gives an overview of women’s lives in Late Antiquity and is a good introduction to the topic. It surveys a wide range of sources to give the landscape of women’s lives in the 3rd to 6th centuries CE.