The Goths: Lost Civilizations

by David Gwynn

The Goths are truly a "lost civilization." Sweeping down from the north, ancient Gothic tribes sacked the imperial city of Rome and set in motion the decline and fall of the western Roman empire. Ostrogothic and Visigothic kings ruled over Italy and Spain, dominating early medieval Europe. Yet after the last Gothic kingdom fell more than a thousand years ago, the Goths disappeared as an independent people. Over the centuries that followed, as traces...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780238452
• ISBN13: 9781780238456
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"