Hello

[Ingemar Nordgren]

Hi Bob,

Some good works in German, however not so very fresh but they belong 
to the standard works: Reinhardt Wenskus "Stammesbildung und 
Verfassung" 1965. He is the one who starts with a new demographic 
viewpoint that later Wolfram and Pohl developes into 'ethnogenesis'. 
Accordingly also look for books by Walter Pohl. Goffart "The 
narrators of barbarian history" is opposed to these two. Same 
tendencies you find in "On Barbarian Identity" 2002, ed. Andrew 
Gillet. Also look for  publications of Andreas Schwarcz in Vienna.
Another old  standard book is Rolf Hachmann "Die Goten und 
Skandinavien" 1970.Some really late examples looking at the 
archaeology and spread of the Goths in Germanic areas are Heike Grahn-
Hoek,2002  Stamm und Reich der frühen Thüringer nach der 
Schriftquellen. i Zeitschrift des Vereins für Thüringische 
Geschichte, Band 56, Jena 2002 and Bertold Schmidt "Zwischen 
römischer Eroberung und Königreich"  in  'Archäologie in 
Deutschland', Thema: Die Thüringer, Theiss, Stuttgart 1984 and he has 
written more works also.A Polish serie is constantly publishing new 
archaeological results. It is called in English "Archaeological 
rescue investigations along the gas transit pipeline", ed.Marek 
Gierlach but it is mostly Polish with short summaries.
Some other Polish researchers are Kmieczinski, J  1972  "Die 
Bedeutung der Germanen östlich der Oder während der ersten 
Jahrhunderte nach Christi Geburt im Lichte der neueren Forschungen",  
Studia Gotica, A&W, Stockholm 
Makiewicz,Tadeusz  The Goths in Greater Poland
http://www.muzarp.poznan.pl/archweb/gazociag/contents.htm
and Okulicz-Kozaryn, Jerzy  1991 "Das Gräberfeld von Weklice.  Zur 
Besiedlungsgeschichte des Weichselraums in der römischen Kaiserzeit", 
Archeologia, Vol. XV, s. 115-127. He treats the possible origin of 
the Gepids.A more ortodox archaeologist is Bierbrauer, Volker  
1991,"Die Goten vom 1-7. Jahrhundert n. Chr.: Siedelgebiete und 
Wanderbewegungen auf grund archäologischer Quellen", Universitetets 
Oldsaksamlings Skrifter, Ny Rekke, nr.  14, Oslo Universitet, Oslo.

For the later development in the Mediterranean area e.g. A.E. 
Thompson and Dietrich Claude has written quite good books but they 
are not fresh.

Well, these are just a few examples of possible literature - some old 
and some new. Together they give a broad but definitely not united 
view of the Goths.Hope I did not frighten you now. It will take quite 
a while looking them all through so you have to make some choices.

Good luck!
Ingemar



--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Bob Offer-Westort <Bob at ...> wrote:
>
> I'm working on some independent research into the origins of the 
Old  
> English poem known as 'Deor', & have been reading Wolfram for some  
> Gothic context (mostly concerning the Ostrogoths during the 
lifetimes  
> of Cassiodorus & Jordanes). I plan to read Heather & Kaliff, as 
well  
> as Ingemar's thesis & Thomas Burns *A History of the Ostrogoths*, 
but  
> I rather suspect that I'm missing out because my reading derives  
> mostly from looking at English-language materials. I don't have a  
> background in history, & I'm coming from outside the Academy, so 
I'm  
> not really sure how to navigate resources save by looking thru  
> bibliographies. Is there material in German or other modern 
European  
> languages since 1988 that one should read in order to have a 
decent  
> understanding of scholarly interpretation of later Gothic history? 
How  
> does one go about finding out whether or not this sort of material  
> exists other than asking on a listserv? Basically, how do academic  
> Gothicists keep up to date?
> 
> (I am learning Latin, & do plan to eventually read some of the 
primary  
> sources directly, but currently am not yet capable of so doing.)
> 
> Thanks much for any advice any of y'all can provide.
> 
> -Bob
>   San Francisco, California, USA
> 
> P.S. A happy Kwanzaa, Chanukkah, Boxing Day, & Feast of St. Stephen 
to  
> you all. Enjoy the turtle doves.
> 
> On Dec 7, 2008, at 5.12 PST, Ingemar Nordgren wrote:
> 
> > Hi David and welcome!
> >
> > The Goths are disputed in many ways and so is their history. I 
have
> > myself disputed in the matter and my dissertation is published in
> > bookform as "The Well Spring of the Goths". It is a bit unortodox 
when
> > it concerns what makes them Gothic, where I mean earlier 
researcher  
> > got
> > it wrong, but otherwise it tells the conventional story in great. 
I
> > have a literature index where you might find a lot of literature 
about
> > the Goths. You can test read it at Google library. The most well 
known
> > classical books internationally are Herwig Wolfram "The Goths" and
> > Peter Heather "The Goths". An interesting new angle is also Anders
> > Kaliff "Gothic Connections".
> >
> > Best
> > Ingemar
> >
> > --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "dernehelm" <dernehelm@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello. My Name is David Bustillos. I know basically nothing 
about  
> > the
> > > Goths. But I want to learn. does anyone have a list of links or 
of
> > > books in English that are recommended for some one wanting to 
learn.
> > >
> > > Also are there any colleges that attempt to teach Gothic?
> > > Thank you,
> > > David
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>


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