I would be content if "German" and its derivatives were ban… - Walter Goffart

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I would be content if "German" and its derivatives were banished from all but linguistic discourse on this subject.

Walter Goffart

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Walter Andre Goffart (born February 22, 1934) is a Belgian-born American historian of the later Roman Empire and the early Middle Ages who specializes in research on the barbarian kingdoms of those periods.

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Alternative Names: Walter Andre Goffart • Walter A. Goffart

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[Gustav] Kossinna's ideas about the early Germans, which have long circulated apart from his name, have been only superficially purged from the writings of today.

My central concern in the present book is... to liberate barbarian history from the German nationalism that has suffused it ever since the sixteenth century and, in whatever disguises, continues to do so today.

The main goal of this book is to reform thinking and writing about the barbarians in late antiquity by driving out the anachronistic terms "German" and "Germanic" and the baggage that goes with them.

I would be content if "German" and its derivatives were banished from all but linguistic discourse on this subject. - Walter Goffart

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