Walter Goffart

Biographic Data

ID	971666
NAME	Walter Goffart
GIVEN NAMES	Walter
FAMILY NAME	Goffart
SIGNATURE	GOFFART W
AFFILIATIONS	University of Toronto
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	75
TOTAL CITATIONS	61
AUTHOR COUNT	73
EDITOR COUNT	1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1959
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2019
H-INDEX	4

The Origin of the Idea of Crusade: Foreword and additional notes by Marshall W. Baldwin
Carl Erdmann, Walter A Goffart et al.BOOKOrigin of the Idea of Crusade2019
The description for this book, The Origin of the Idea of Crusade: Foreword and additional notes by Marshall W. Baldwin, will be forthcoming
Journal of Medieval Military History
Open AccessCarl I Hammer, Walter Goffart et al.BOOKJournal of Medieval Military…2018
"The Journal of Medieval Military History continues to consolidate its now assured position as the leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare." Medieval Warfare
Journal of Medieval Military History: Volume XVI
Bernard S Bachrach, John France et al.BOOKJournal of Medieval Military…2018
Administrative Methods of Barbarian Settlement in the Fifth Century: The Definitive Account
Open AccessWalter GoffartCHAPTERGallien in Spätantike und…2013
The settlements in question here form a group defined by a small corpus of evidence, perhaps five pages in all of modern print; the main problem is to interpret this corpus coherently. The settlements affected the Goths and Burgundians of Gaul, the Vandals of North Africa, and, in Italy, Odoacer and his army, then the Goths of Theoderic. A book of 1844 by Ernst-Theodor Gaupp set in motion efforts to construct a sophisticated interpretation of the…
The Barbarians in Late Antiquity and How They Were Accommodated in the West
Walter GoffartCHAPTERFrom Roman Provinces to Barbarian…2010
Does the Distant Past Impinge on the Invasion Age Germans?
Walter GoffartCHAPTERFrom Roman Provinces to Barbarian…2010
The Technique of Barbarian Settlement in the Fifth Century: A Personal, Streamlined Account with Ten Additional Comments
Walter GoffartARTICLEJournal of late antiquity2010Cited by: 11References: 7
In 1844, E.-T. Gaupp set in motion sophisticated interpretations of the small body of evidence left by the barbarian settlements in the western Roman empire. A critique of Gaupp with an alternative, tax-based theory was published in 1980 and, although widely heeded, has been very controversial. In 2007, Guy Halsall drew a baseline for the subject, concluding that Gaupp was outdated and that either the alternative of 1980 or another comprehensive …
Salvian of Marseille, De gubernatione dei 5.38-45 and the “colonate” problem
Walter GoffartARTICLEAntiquité Tardive2009Cited by: 1
Des textes bien connus arrivent quelquefois à échapper longtemps à une interprétation qui satisfasse tout le monde. C'est le cas notamment de quelques chapitres fameux du De gubernatione Dei de Salvien de Marseille, qui ont trait au patronage anti-fiscal et à l'état du colon. Le «colonat» est redevenu un sujet de débats depuis l'intervention, en 1982, de J.-M. Carrié, mais risque actuellement d'être perdu de vue. Ce qui importe le plus pour les h…
The Ostrogoths from the Migration Period to the Sixth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective
Walter GoffartARTICLEThe English Historical Review2009Cited by: 1
This is the seventh volume of a projected twelve in a series issued by the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Stress of the anthropologist Giorgio Ausenda in San Marino. Reviewers of these volumes have tended to agree on the contributors’ avoidance of the advertised ‘ethnographic perspective’, and on the length and mediocrity of the ancillary matter. The miscellaneity of the contents has also been noticed. The present volume is no e…
Rome's Final Conquest: The Barbarians
Open AccessWalter GoffartARTICLEHistory Compass2008Cited by: 2References: 16
The standard account of Rome's dealing with the barbarians in late antiquity describes dynamically expanding Germans and an Empire succumbing beneath their pressure. Offered here is an alternative scenario. Its starting point is that the barbarians and Rome, instead of being in constant conflict with each other, occupied a joined space, a single world in which both were entitled to share. What we call the barbarian invasions was primarily a drawi…
Frankish military duty and the fate of Roman taxation
Open AccessWalter GoffartARTICLEEarly Medieval Europe2008Cited by: 2References: 1
Frankish kings exacted unpaid military service from their subjects in both Merovingian and Carolingian times. The basis for this right has long been uncertain. A study of the term ‘manse’ as a Carolingian measure of assets brings to light the ostensibly hidden property on whose basis Franks went to war. This military duty reached back to the origins of the Frankish kingdom, when a large share of Roman taxes was awarded in individual allotments to…
The Name ‘Merovingian’ and the Dating of Beowulf
Open AccessWalter GoffartARTICLEAnglo-Saxon England2007
Reviving an argument of 1849, Tom Shippey has lately maintained that the dynasty name ‘Merovingian’ in Beowulf furnishes a firm criterion for attributing an early date to the poem. He contends, using an electronic database, that a deliberate damnatio memoriae caused the name ‘Merovingian’ to fade soon after the dynasty was deposed (751); its occurrence is therefore a terminus ad quem . This article shows that the Carolingians took pains to affirm…
Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire
Walter GoffartBOOKBarbarian Tides2006
Barbarian Tides radically subverts the grand narrative of a "Germanic" migration and reinvents the role of barbarians in the Later Roman Empire. Goffart sets out how the fragmented foreign peoples once living on the edges of the Empire participated with the Romans in the larger stirrings of late antiquity
Geschichte des Bistums Le Mans von der Spätantike bis zur Karolingerzeit: Actus pontificum Cenomannis in urbe degentium und Gesta Aldrici, 1: Die erzählenden Texte; 2: Die Urkunden; 3: Exkurse und Reg…
Walter GoffartARTICLESpeculum2006Cited by: 1
Die Burgunder . Reinhold Kaiser
Walter GoffartARTICLESpeculum2006
Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 550–800), The: Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon
Walter GoffartBOOKNarrators of Barbarian History…2005
Bede's uera lex historiae explained
Open AccessWalter GoffartARTICLEAnglo-Saxon England2005Cited by: 1
Walter Walter Goffart 31 Temple Court New Haven, CT 06511203 787 4120 In closing the preface to the ‘Historia Ecclesiastica’ Bede mentions the possibility of disputed truth, refers to ‘common report’, and invokes the, or a, ‘vera lex historiae’, literally, ‘true law of history’. Oddly, Bede seems to be disclaiming responsibility for his mistakes. These lines continue to be ‘a crux much commented upon’. Bede clarifies the meaning of this ‘law’ in …
Jordanes's "Getica" and the Disputed Authenticity of Gothic Origins from Scandinavia
Walter GoffartARTICLESpeculum2005References: 1
The Genesis of John Speed's Maps of Battles in England and Ireland
Walter GoffartARTICLEThe Seventeenth Century2004References: 1
For a time in 1797 England had reason to fear that its naval supremacy had been lost and that it risked defeat by the armed forces of Revolutionary France. Just then, the London mapmaker John Enouy issued a map entitled 'The Invasions of England and Ireland'; its design implied that no invasions since 1066 had succeeded. The next year, the Directory governing France planned to unleash Bonaparte against Britain. To encourage this plan, the Paris m…
Frédégaire: Chronique des temps mérovingiens (Livre IV et Continuations) . Frédégaire, Olivier Devillers , Jean Meyers , J. M. Wallace-Hadrill
Walter GoffartARTICLESpeculum2004
Les societies occidentales du milieu du VIe siecle a la fin du IXe siecle
Walter GoffartARTICLEThe English Historical Review2004
1Yale University Les sociétiés occidentales du milieu du VIe siècle à la fin du IXe siècle Philippe Depreux Rennes Rennes U.P. 2002 304 Eur 19
Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570-1870
Walter GoffartBOOKHistorical Atlases2003Cited by: 4
Does the Distant Past Impinge on the Invasion Age Germans?
Walter GoffartCHAPTEROn Barbarian Identity2002
Ethnicity has been central to medieval studies since the Goths, Franks, Alamanni and other barbarian settlers of the former Roman empire were first seen as part of Germanic antiquity. Today, two paradigms dominate interpretation of barbarian Europe. In history, theories of how tribes formed (‘ethnogenesis’) assert the continuity of Germanic identities from prehistory through the Middle Ages, and see cultural rather than biological factors as the …
Le storie dei longobardi: Dall'origine a Paolo Diacono. Stefano Maria Cingolani
Walter GoffartARTICLESpeculum1998
Christian Pessimism on the Walls of the Vatican Galleria delle carte geografiche
Open AccessWalter GoffartARTICLERenaissance Quarterly1998References: 2
The Vatican Map Gallery (1579-81) contains fifty-one historical paintings in its vault and twenty-three historical vignettes on its monumental maps of Italy. Inspired by an early-Christian conception of the past, the vault paintings illustrate a "perfect" history, typified by saints' miracles. The contrasting vignettes demand more painstaking interpretation. Embedded in geography, they appear to exemplify a terrestrial history (reminiscent of Oro…

Caput and Colonate: Towards a History of Late Roman Taxation
Richard E Mitchell, Walter GoffartARTICLEThe American Historical Review1976Cited by: 17
The Technique of Barbarian Settlement in the Fifth Century: A Personal, Streamlined Account with Ten Additional Comments
Walter GoffartARTICLEJournal of late antiquity2010Cited by: 11References: 7
In 1844, E.-T. Gaupp set in motion sophisticated interpretations of the small body of evidence left by the barbarian settlements in the western Roman empire. A critique of Gaupp with an alternative, tax-based theory was published in 1980 and, although widely heeded, has been very controversial. In 2007, Guy Halsall drew a baseline for the subject, concluding that Gaupp was outdated and that either the alternative of 1980 or another comprehensive …
The Date and Purpose of Vegetius' ‘De re militari’
Open AccessWalter GoffartARTICLETraditio1977Cited by: 10
The treatise De re militari by Flavius Vegetius Renatus was the bible of warfare throughout the Middle Ages — the soldier's equivalent of the Rule of St. Benedict. The surviving manuscripts exceed 140; there were five separate translations into French within the century following 1284, many more into other languages, and nine incunabula. In contrast to Byzantium, where a succession of authors since Urbicius ( ca. 500) strove to keep military lite…
From Roman Taxation to Mediaeval Seigneurie: Three Notes (Part II)
Walter GoffartARTICLESpeculum1972Cited by: 6
Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570-1870
Walter GoffartBOOKHistorical Atlases2003Cited by: 4
Rome's Final Conquest: The Barbarians
Open AccessWalter GoffartARTICLEHistory Compass2008Cited by: 2References: 16
The standard account of Rome's dealing with the barbarians in late antiquity describes dynamically expanding Germans and an Empire succumbing beneath their pressure. Offered here is an alternative scenario. Its starting point is that the barbarians and Rome, instead of being in constant conflict with each other, occupied a joined space, a single world in which both were entitled to share. What we call the barbarian invasions was primarily a drawi…
Frankish military duty and the fate of Roman taxation
Open AccessWalter GoffartARTICLEEarly Medieval Europe2008Cited by: 2References: 1
Frankish kings exacted unpaid military service from their subjects in both Merovingian and Carolingian times. The basis for this right has long been uncertain. A study of the term ‘manse’ as a Carolingian measure of assets brings to light the ostensibly hidden property on whose basis Franks went to war. This military duty reached back to the origins of the Frankish kingdom, when a large share of Roman taxes was awarded in individual allotments to…
Caput and Colonate: Towards a History of Late Roman Taxation
Robert K Sherk, Walter GoffartARTICLEThe Classical World1976Cited by: 2
Salvian of Marseille, De gubernatione dei 5.38-45 and the “colonate” problem
Walter GoffartARTICLEAntiquité Tardive2009Cited by: 1
Des textes bien connus arrivent quelquefois à échapper longtemps à une interprétation qui satisfasse tout le monde. C'est le cas notamment de quelques chapitres fameux du De gubernatione Dei de Salvien de Marseille, qui ont trait au patronage anti-fiscal et à l'état du colon. Le «colonat» est redevenu un sujet de débats depuis l'intervention, en 1982, de J.-M. Carrié, mais risque actuellement d'être perdu de vue. Ce qui importe le plus pour les h…
The Ostrogoths from the Migration Period to the Sixth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective
Walter GoffartARTICLEThe English Historical Review2009Cited by: 1
This is the seventh volume of a projected twelve in a series issued by the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Stress of the anthropologist Giorgio Ausenda in San Marino. Reviewers of these volumes have tended to agree on the contributors’ avoidance of the advertised ‘ethnographic perspective’, and on the length and mediocrity of the ancillary matter. The miscellaneity of the contents has also been noticed. The present volume is no e…
Geschichte des Bistums Le Mans von der Spätantike bis zur Karolingerzeit: Actus pontificum Cenomannis in urbe degentium und Gesta Aldrici, 1: Die erzählenden Texte; 2: Die Urkunden; 3: Exkurse und Reg…
Walter GoffartARTICLESpeculum2006Cited by: 1
Bede's uera lex historiae explained
Open AccessWalter GoffartARTICLEAnglo-Saxon England2005Cited by: 1
Walter Walter Goffart 31 Temple Court New Haven, CT 06511203 787 4120 In closing the preface to the ‘Historia Ecclesiastica’ Bede mentions the possibility of disputed truth, refers to ‘common report’, and invokes the, or a, ‘vera lex historiae’, literally, ‘true law of history’. Oddly, Bede seems to be disclaiming responsibility for his mistakes. These lines continue to be ‘a crux much commented upon’. Bede clarifies the meaning of this ‘law’ in …
Charters Earlier than 800 from French Collections Chartae Latinae Antiquiores: Facsimile-Edition of the Latin Charters Prior to the Ninth Century, 13: France I. Albert Bruckner , Robert Marichal , Har…
David Ganz, Walter GoffartARTICLESpeculum1990Cited by: 1
Old and New in Merovingian Taxation
Walter GoffartARTICLEPast & Present1982Cited by: 1
Journal Article OLD AND NEW IN MEROVINGIAN TAXATION Get access Walter Goffart Walter Goffart University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 96, Issue 1, August 1982, Pages 3–21, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/96.1.3 Published: 01 August 1982
Did Julian Combat Venal Suffragium? A Note on CTh 2. 29. 1
Walter GoffartARTICLEClassical Philology1970Cited by: 1