Sunday, December 27, 2020
Better Things to Do?
Walter Goffart, "The Theme of 'The Barbarian Invasions' in Late
Antique and Modern Historiography," in Evangelos K. Chrysos and Andreas Schwarcz, edd., Das Reich und die Barbaren
(Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1989), pp. 87-107 (at 98):
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The Empire after Constantine had better things to do than engage in a ceaseless, sterile effort to exclude foreigners for whom it could find useful employment.
