The Story of the Goths by Henry Bradley is a fascinating history of the people that brought down the Romans.

More than three hundred years before the birth of Christ, a traveller from the Greek colony of Marseilles, named Pytheas, made known to the civilized world the existence of a people called Guttones, who lived near the Frische Haff, in the country since known as East Prussia, and traded in the amber that was gathered on the Baltic shores. For four whole centuries these amber merchants of the Baltic are heard of no more. The elder Pliny, a Roman writer who died in the year 79 after Christ, t...

In 410, the Goths surged over what remained of the city walls and sacked the city of Rome.But who were the Goths?And how were they able to conquer the greatest city of the ancient world?Henry Bradley charts a history of the Goths from their emergence in eastern Europe, across the river Danube, to their spread westwards, fighting both against and for the Roman Empire, before they eventually overcame their masters and conquered vast swathes of what re...

The Goths were an East Germanic people, two of whose branches, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, played an important role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of Medieval Europe.An important source of knowledge of the Goths is Getica, a semi-fictional account, written in the 6th century by the Roman historian Jordanes, of their migration from southern Scandza (Scandinavia), into Gothiscandza—believed to be the lower Vistula region in modern Pomerania—a...

Henry Bradley was a prominent British philologist and writer. Bradley's most famous work is The Story of the Goths which traces their history from the beginning until the end of the Gothic Dominion in Spain. A table of contents is included.

More than three hundred years before the birth of Christ, a traveller from the Greek colony of Marseilles, named Pytheas, made known to the civilized world the existence of a people called Guttones, who lived near the Frische Haff, in the country since known as East Prussia, and traded in the amber that was gathered on the Baltic shores. For four whole centuries these amber merchants of the Baltic are heard of no more. The elder Pliny, a Roman writer who died in the year 79 after Christ, t...

The Story of the Goths from the Earliest Times to the End of the Gothic Dominion in Spain is a concise history of the origins and history of the Goths. Heraklion Press has included a linked table of contents.

In "The Life of Henry Bradley Plant," G. Hutchinson Smyth delves into the remarkable journey of one of America's most influential railroad tycoons. The book employs a thorough biographical narrative style, blending vivid storytelling with rich historical context, revealing the transformative impact Plant had on the transportation landscape of the southeastern United States in the late 19th century. Smyth meticulously examines both the economic implications and the personal anecdotes that s...

A journey into the heart of the medieval world. The Dark Ages Collection brings together an extraordinary compilation of historical works by the greatest scholars of the past, offering a vivid and comprehensive portrait of the period between the fall of Rome and the dawn of the Renaissance. From barbarian invasions to the rise of feudalism, from the birth of kingdoms to the clash of faith and power, this collection reveals the forces that shaped the foundations of Europe and the world. Per...

Henry Bradleys The Story of the Goths from the Earliest Times to the End of Gothic Dominion in Spain is a concise history of the Goths from before their invasion of Rome until the 8th century A.D. This edition includes a table of contents.

The first biography of Henry Bradley Plant, the entrepreneur and business magnate considered the father of modern FloridaIn this landmark biography, Canter Brown Jr. makes evident the extent of Henry Bradley Plant’s influences throughout North, Central, and South America as well as his role in the emergence of integrated transportation and a national tourism system. One of the preeminent historians of Florida, Brown brings this important but understudied figure in ...

The Dark Ages is a historical periodization traditionally referring to the Middle Ages, that asserts that a demographic, cultural, and economic deterioration occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire.The term employs traditional light-versus-darkness imagery to contrast the era's "darkness" (lack of records) with earlier and later periods of "light" (abundance of records).The concept of a "Dark Age" originated in the 1330s with the Italian scholar Petrarc...