Shami Ghosh, Writing the Barbarian Past: Studies in Early Medieval Historical Narrative. Brill’s Series on the Early Middle Ages 24. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Pp. 330. US$175.00.

Abstract

Such questions, however, should not deter the reader from picking up this book. This is a careful analysis of a wide range of early medieval texts that are seldom studied together. Anyone interested in barbarian history or early medieval perceptions of the past will find much to think about upon reading it.