The Dark Ages Podcast

    Sources

    This page is continuously updated, always a work in progress, and absolutely assuredly incomplete, especially vis-a-vis online resources.

    I’ve arranged secondary sources by topic for ease of use:

    Primary Sources

    Ammianus Marcellinus. 1911. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus. Translated by C.D. Yonge. London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd.

    Bede the Venerable. 1907. Ecclesiastical History of England. Translated by A. M. Sellar. London: George Bell and Sons. https://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/0627-0735,_Beda_Venerabilis,_Ecclesiastical_History_Of_England,_EN.pdf.

    Boethius. 2004. On the Consolation of Philosophy. Translated by H. R. James. N.p.: Project Gutenberg. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14328/pg14328-images.html.

    Cassiodorus. 1886. The Letters of Cassiodorus: Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator. Translated by Thomas Hodgkin. London: Henry Frowe. https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18590/pg18590-images.html.

    Eugippius. 1965. Commemoratorium Severinus. Translated by Ludwig Bieler. Washington, DC: Catholic University Press.

    Gregory the Great. 1933. Dialogi de vita et miraculis patrum italicorum. Translated by Joseph Funk. Munich: Kempten. https://bkv.unifr.ch/de/works/cpl-1713/versions/vier-bucher-dialoge-bkv.

    Gregory of Tours. 1974. The History of the Franks. Translated by Lewis Thorpe. London: Penguin Books.

    Hydatius, and Aymenn J. al-Tamimi. 2023. “The Chronicle of Hydatius: Translation and Overview.” Aymenn’s Monstrous Publications. https://www.aymennaltamimi.com/p/the-chronicle-of-hydatius-translation.

    Isidore of Seville, and Aymenn J. Al-Tamimi. 2021. “Saint Isidore of Seville’s History of the Kings of the Goths, Vandals and Suevi.” Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi. https://aymennjawad.org/24964/saint-isidore-of-seville-history-of-the-kings.

    John of Biclaro, and Aymann J. al-Tamimi. 2022. “The Chronicle of John of Biclaro: Translation and Commentary.” Aymenn’s Monstrous Publications. https://www.aymennaltamimi.com/p/the-chronicle-of-john-of-biclaro.

    Jordanes. 1908. The Origin and Deeds of the Goths. Translated by Charles C. Mierow. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

    Patrick, Saint. n.d. Confessio. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. https://www.confessio.ie/etexts/confessio_english#

    Paulus Orosius. 1964. Seven Books of History Against the Pagans. Translated by Roy J. Deferrari. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press.

    Priscus of Panium. 2014.The Fragmentary History of Priscus. Translated and with an introduction and annotations by John Given. Merchantville, NJ: Arx Publishing.

    Procopius. 1914. Procopius, with an English Translation by H.B. Dewing. Translated by Henry B. Dewing. Vol. 4. 7 vols. London: S Heinemann. https://archive.org/details/procopiuswitheng04procuoft/page/n5/mode/1up.

    Selections from the Austrasian Letters. n.d. N.p.: The Latin Library. https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/epistaustras.html.

    Sozomon. 2014. A History of the Church in Nine Books. London: Aeterna Press.

    Zosimus. 1982. History of Zosimus. Translated by Ronald Ridley. Sydney: Australian Association of Byzantine Studies.

    Secondary Sources

    General (Textbooks and Historiography)

    Collins, Roger. 1991. Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000. N.p.: St. Martin’s Press.

    Fouracre, Paul, ed. 2015. The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 1, C.500-c.700. N.p.: Cambridge University Press.

    Goffart, Walter A. 2006. Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire. N.p.: University of Pennsylvania Press.

    Halsall, Guy. 2007. Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West 376-568. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Frassetto, Michael. 2003. Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe: Society in Transformation. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.

    Martindale, J.R. The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. II. vol. 2, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1980. 3 vols. The Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/prosopography-later-roman-empire/PLRE-II/mode/1up.

    Wallace-Hadrill, John M. 1967. The Barbarian West, 400-1000. N.p.: Hutchinson.

    Britain & Ireland

    Crossley-Holland, Kevin, ed. 2009. The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology. Translated by Kevin Crossley-Holland. N.p.: OUP Oxford.

    Halsall, Guy. 2013. Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages. N.p.: OUP Oxford.

    Byzantium

    Moorhead, John. 1994. Justinian. N.p.: Longman.

    Franks / Gaul

    Geary, Patrick J. 1988. Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World. N.p.: Oxford University Press.

    Heather, Peter J. 2014. The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    James, Edward. 1988. The Franks. Oxford: B. Blackwell.

    Mathisen, Ralph. 1993. Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul: Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition. N.p.: University of Texas Press.

    Todd, Malcolm. 1972. Everyday Life of the Barbarians: Goths, Franks and Vandals. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd.

    Wood, Ian. 1994. The Merovingian Kingdoms: 450-751. London: Longman Group UK.

    Huns

    Thompson, E. A. 1996. Huns. Edited by Peter J. Heather. N.p.: Wiley.

    The Late Roman Empire

    Bowersock, Glen W. 1999. Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World. Edited by Glen W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar. N.p.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

    Bury, John B. 1967. The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians. Edited by Fossey John C. Hearnshaw. New York: Norton.

    Delbruck, Hans. 1980. The Barbarian Invasions. Translated by Walter J. Renfroe. 3rd ed. Vol. 2. 3 vols. Lincoln, NE: Bison Books.

    Goldsworthy, Adrian K. 2009. How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower. New Haven: Yale University Press.

    Halsall, Guy. 2007. Barbarian migrations and the Roman West, 376-568. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Lewis, Will. (April 19, 2019) The Theodosian Code and the Flight of the Curiales Cardiff University SHARE eJournal.

    Oost, Stewart Irving. (January, 1965) Some Problems in the History of Galla Placidia. Classical Philology Vol. 60 No. 1

    Wolfram, Herwig. 1997. The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples. Translated by Thomas R. Dunlap. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Ostrogoths / Italy

    Heather, Peter J. 2014. The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Herrin, Judith. 2022. Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

    Hodgkin, Thomas. 1891. Theodoric the Great: Barbarian Champion of Civilisation. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/20063/pg20063-images.html.

    Lafferty, Sean. 2013. Law and Society in the Age of Theodoric the Great. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Shanzer, Danuta. “Two Clocks and a Wedding: Theodoric’s Diplomatic Relations With the Burgundians.” Romanobarbarica, 1996.

    Vitiello, Massimiliano. 2017. Amalasuintha: The Transformation of Queenship in the Post-Roman World. N.p.: University of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated.

    Wiemer, Hans-Ulrich. 2023. Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans. Translated by John N. Dillon. N.p.: Yale University Press.

    Wolfram, Herwig. 1990. History of the Goths. Translated by Thomas Dunlap. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Wolfram, Herwig. 1997. The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples. Translated by Thomas R. Dunlap. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Religion

    Fletcher, Richard. 1997. The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity. The Barbarian Conversions vols. New York: Henry Holt and Co.

    Halsall, Guy. 1995. Early Medieval Cemeteries: An Introduction to Burial Archaeology in the Post-Roman West. Glasgow: Cruithne Press.

    Hazleton, Lesley. 2014. The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad. N.p.: Penguin Publishing Group.

    Heather, Peter. 2023. Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300. N.p.: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

    Holland, Tom. 2010. The Forge of Christendom: The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West. N.p.: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.Holland, Tom. 2013. In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire. N.p.: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

    Laham Cohen, Rodrigo. 2018. The Jews in Late Antiquity. N.p.: ARC Humanities Press.

    Norwich, John J. 2012. The Popes: A History. N.p.: Vintage.

    Richards, Jeffrey. 1979. The popes and the papacy in the early Middle Ages, 476-752. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

    Wills, Garry. 1999. Saint Augustine: New York: Viking/Penguin.

    Vandals / Africa

    Jacobsen, Torsten Cumberland. 2012. A History of the Vandals. Yardley, PA: Westholme Press.

    Wolfram, Herwig. 1997. The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples. Translated by Thomas R. Dunlap. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Todd, Malcolm. 1972. Everyday Life of the Barbarians: Goths, Franks and Vandals. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd.

    Visigoths / Spain

    Collins, Roger. 1990. The Basques. N.p.: Blackwell.

    Collins, Roger. 2006. Visigothic Spain 409 – 711. N.p.: Wiley.

    Heather, Peter, ed. 1999. The Visigoths from the Migration Period to the Seventh Century: An Ethnographic Perspective. N.p.: Boydell Press.

    Todd, Malcolm. 1972. Everyday Life of the Barbarians: Goths, Franks and Vandals. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd.

    Wolfram, Herwig. 1990. History of the Goths. Translated by Thomas Dunlap. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Wolfram, Herwig. 1997. The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples. Translated by Thomas R. Dunlap. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Warfare

    Shaw, Brent D. 1999. “War and Violence.” In Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, edited by Professor Emeritus of Ancient History G W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, Peter Robert L. Brown, Oleg Grabar, Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art and Architecture O. Grabar, and Glen W. Bowersock, 130-169. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

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