The Resource Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome, Douglas Boin
Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome, Douglas Boin
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- Summary
- "Did 'barbarians' really cause the catastrophic collapse of civilization? Boin is the first to give an historically sound account from the 'barbarian' perspective, through the life of Alaric the Goth. On August 24, 410 A.D., the Senate and the people of Rome awoke to a seismic shock. Intruders, led by a disaffected forty-year-old immigrant, known only as Alaric, had stormed the city. There were kidnappings, robbery, and acts of arson. The effects were long-lasting. Within two generations, Rome's world fell apart. A city predicted to rule an empire without end, in the words of its famous Latin poet Virgil, was governed by a savage band of foreigners, called Goths. Alaric the Goth offers a deeply researched look at the end of the Roman Empire but from a surprising point-of-view. Offering the first full-length biography of Alaric, a talented and frustrated immigrant living in a time of pervasive bigotry, state-supported Christian violence, and irrational xenophobia, it breaks out of decades of tired, traditional approaches to the period, most of which overidentify with the Roman people. And it reveals the lasting contributions Goths made to legal history, to the values of religious toleration, and to modern ideas of citizenship. By moving this man from the borders to the center of Rome's story, it asks readers to think deeply and differently about the lives of marginalized people too often invisible in our history books."--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 254 pages
- Contents
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- Seventy-two hours
- The trailblazer
- Stolen childhoods
- Opportunity
- The mystery of conversion
- Love, war, and an awakening
- The lion and the fox
- Into the labyrinth
- The crash
- Alaric's dying ambitions
- Smoldering ruins and a lost key
- Isbn
- 9780393635690
- Label
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Title
- Alaric the Goth
- Title remainder
- an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Statement of responsibility
- Douglas Boin
- Title variation
- Outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Title variation remainder
- an outsiders history of the fall of Rome
- Subject
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- 200-599
- trueBarbarians
- Biographies
- Biographies
- trueCitizenship
- History
- trueReligious tolerance
- trueRomans
- Rome (Empire)
- trueRome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
- trueRome -- History -- Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries
- Rome -- History -- Siege, 410
- Rome -- History -- Theodosians, 379-455
- trueRulers
- trueVisigoths
- Visigoths -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
- trueXenophobia
- Alaric, I, King of the Visigoths, -410
- Alaric, I, King of the Visigoths, -410
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Did 'barbarians' really cause the catastrophic collapse of civilization? Boin is the first to give an historically sound account from the 'barbarian' perspective, through the life of Alaric the Goth. On August 24, 410 A.D., the Senate and the people of Rome awoke to a seismic shock. Intruders, led by a disaffected forty-year-old immigrant, known only as Alaric, had stormed the city. There were kidnappings, robbery, and acts of arson. The effects were long-lasting. Within two generations, Rome's world fell apart. A city predicted to rule an empire without end, in the words of its famous Latin poet Virgil, was governed by a savage band of foreigners, called Goths. Alaric the Goth offers a deeply researched look at the end of the Roman Empire but from a surprising point-of-view. Offering the first full-length biography of Alaric, a talented and frustrated immigrant living in a time of pervasive bigotry, state-supported Christian violence, and irrational xenophobia, it breaks out of decades of tired, traditional approaches to the period, most of which overidentify with the Roman people. And it reveals the lasting contributions Goths made to legal history, to the values of religious toleration, and to modern ideas of citizenship. By moving this man from the borders to the center of Rome's story, it asks readers to think deeply and differently about the lives of marginalized people too often invisible in our history books."--
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- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- individual biography
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- 10896572
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Boin, Douglas
- Dewey number
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- 937/.09092
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DG322.5.A53
- LC item number
- B65 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Alaric
- Alaric
- Visigoths
- Rome
- Rome
- Rome
- Rome (Empire)
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- an outsider's history of the fall of Rome
- Label
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome, Douglas Boin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index
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- Contents
- Seventy-two hours -- The trailblazer -- Stolen childhoods -- Opportunity -- The mystery of conversion -- Love, war, and an awakening -- The lion and the fox -- Into the labyrinth -- The crash -- Alaric's dying ambitions -- Smoldering ruins and a lost key
- Control code
- on1128885606
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 254 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393635690
- Lccn
- 2019050501
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1128885606
- Label
- Alaric the Goth : an outsider's history of the fall of Rome, Douglas Boin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
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- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
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- Contents
- Seventy-two hours -- The trailblazer -- Stolen childhoods -- Opportunity -- The mystery of conversion -- Love, war, and an awakening -- The lion and the fox -- Into the labyrinth -- The crash -- Alaric's dying ambitions -- Smoldering ruins and a lost key
- Control code
- on1128885606
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 254 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393635690
- Lccn
- 2019050501
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1128885606
Subject
- 200-599
- trueBarbarians
- Biographies
- Biographies
- trueCitizenship
- History
- trueReligious tolerance
- trueRomans
- Rome (Empire)
- trueRome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
- trueRome -- History -- Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries
- Rome -- History -- Siege, 410
- Rome -- History -- Theodosians, 379-455
- trueRulers
- trueVisigoths
- Visigoths -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
- trueXenophobia
- Alaric, I, King of the Visigoths, -410
- Alaric, I, King of the Visigoths, -410
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