Walter Andre Goffart (born February 22, 1934)[1] is a German-born American historian who specializes in Late Antiquity and the European Middle Ages. He taught for many years in the history department and Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Toronto (1960–1999), and is currently a senior research scholar at Yale University. He is the author of monographs on a ninth-century forgery (Le Mans Forgeries), late Roman taxation (Caput and Colonate), four "barbarian" historians, and historical atlases.
Two controversial themes in his research concern the Roman policies used when settling barbarian soldiers in the West Roman Empire (Barbarians and Romans and the sixth chapter of Barbarian Tides), and his criticism of the old idea that there was a single Germanic people opposed to the empire in late antiquity, which he believes still influences academics studying the period.
Walter Andre Goffart (born February 22, 1934) is a German-born American historian who specializes in Late Antiquity and the European Middle Ages. He taught...
Heather, Goths and Romans 332-489, Oxford 1991, pp. 47-49 (year 552), WalterGoffart, The Narrators of Barbarian History, Princeton 1988, p. 98 (year 554)...
the throne in the subsequent actions of Charlemagne and his court. WalterGoffart argues that the Gesta Episcoporum Mettensium, written by Paul the Deacon...
student of WalterGoffart. Among his fellow students of Goffart were Andrew Gillett. After gaining his PhD, which was completed not with WalterGoffart, but...
most enduring periods of peace in the annals of civilization. However, WalterGoffart wrote: "The volume of the Cambridge Ancient History for the years AD...
not have arisen through borrowing from attested Latin forms. Although WalterGoffart has objected that "no serious arguments substantiating the identification...
court of Thurisind, where the Gepid king gave him Turismod's arms. WalterGoffart believes it is probable that in this narrative Paul was making use of...
generally consider the Heruli to be one of these. While historians such as WalterGoffart have pointed out that the Herules are never included in the lists of...
but these are doubted by some modern scholars such as Ian Wood and WalterGoffart. As remarked by Susan Reynolds: Wood suggests that those who were called...
church, and Bishop Cynibert for information about Lindsey. The historian WalterGoffart argues that Bede based the structure of the Historia on three works...
6th-century AD Byzantine origin, and not Frankish, according to historian WalterGoffart) and attempted to trace the peoples of the known world (as well as legendary...
Narrators and Sources of early medieval history. Essays presented to WalterGoffart (Toronto 1998) p.125 Wallace-Hadrill p. ??? Gregory, II.31. Wallace-Hadrill...
only refer to events in a much later period. Both Herwig Wolfram and WalterGoffart see the bridge story as likely to be symbolic. Based upon a proposal...
p. 256. Latin text: https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/pomponius3.html WalterGoffart (1983), "The Supposedly 'Frankish' Table of Nations: An Edition and...
church, and Bishop Cynibert for information about Lindsey. The historian WalterGoffart argues that Bede based the structure of the Historia on three works...
looked liked they were about to cease to exist.> A Canadian scholar, WalterGoffart, suggests another incentive, arguing that the Getica was part of a conscious...
Goffart 1983, p. 118. Goffart 1983, p. 125. Goffart 1983, p. 116. Goffart 1983, p. 100. Goffart 1983, pp. 100–101. Goffart 1983, pp. 101–102. Goffart...
Museum Tusculanum Press. ISBN 978-87-7289-710-3. Goffart 1988. Plassmann 2006, p. 16. Goffart, Walter A. (1988). The Narrators of Barbarian History (A...
By 757, Desiderius began securing his power, taking what historian WalterGoffart terms, "vigorous steps to suppress resistance to himself in the powerful...
category should be described as a genre is questioned, for example by WalterGoffart, because of doubts that the authors understood themselves to be following...
theory, arguing that the Chronicle was the work of two authors. In 1963, WalterGoffart renewed the notion of a single author, and this view is now generally...
independent oral tradition would have faithfully transmitted such a detail. WalterGoffart estimated that Beowulf could not have been written with these historical...
the Elder in contrast mentions the Vandals but not the Lugii. Walter Pohl and WalterGoffart have noted that Ptolemy seems to distinguish the Silingi from...
a Young Gentleman Commencing His Education. S. Converse, 1823:105. WalterGoffart (1983), "The Supposedly 'Frankish' Table of Nations: An Edition and...
fünf Bücher über Kriegswissenschaft und Kriegskunst der Römer. Seidel. WalterGoffart. The date and purposes of Vegetius' De Re Militari. In Rome's Fall and...
this work, Wolfram has adopted some of the controversial theories of WalterGoffart. Wolfram and Heather's books on the Goths are considered the foremost...
Radagaisus' defeated Goths, without direct evidence. Scholars such as WalterGoffart and Guy Halsall have argued instead that the barbarian groups crossed...
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