Germanic collectivity exists in linguistics but never exist… - Walter Goffart

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Germanic collectivity exists in linguistics but never existed anywhere else... [A]n "early Germanic world"... had no existence anywhere until it took form in the minds of scholars in sixteenth-century Europe and was thoughtlessly espoused by everyone else.

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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