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- 1 2 Humphries 2007, p. 126.
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- ↑ Kulikowski, "The Notitia Dignitatum as an Historical Source," Historia49 (2000):358-77
- ↑ Kulikowski, "Roman Identity and the Visigothic Settlement in Gaul," in R.W. Mathisen and Danuta Shanzer, edd., Culture and Society in Late Antique Gaul (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers) 2001:26-38
- ↑ Kulikowski, "The Marriage of Philology and Race: Constructing the Germanic," in Matthias Friedrich and James M. Harland, edd., Interrogating the Germanic: A Category and its Use in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Berlin: De Gruyter) 2021:19–30
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- ↑ Kulikowski 2002 , pp. 69–70. "The use of the term 'barbarian' is deliberate and surely non-pejorative. It is to be preferred programmatically to the noun 'German' and the adjective 'Germanic'. 'Germans' and 'Germanic peoples' are the legacy of nineteenth-century philology."
- 1 2 Kulikowski 2009 , pp. 1201–1202. "James is clearly correct in deciding to use "barbarian" as a technical term that avoids any implications about ethnicity... This is particularly welcome given the resurgence of "Germanic" as a catch-all term for northern barbarians... [T]he dogma of barbarian ethnogenesis—first brought into English-language scholarship by Patrick Geary and now the dominant approach to the barbarians among early medievalists—is really a way to bring long-distance migration from the Germanic north in by the back door."
- ↑ Kulikowski 2006 , p. 43. "[O]ne can find it stated that written sources, archaeology, and linguistic evidence all demonstrate that just such a migration took place, if not out of Scandinavia then at least out of Poland. In fact, there is just a single source for this extended story of Gothic migration, the Getica of Jordanes."
- ↑ Kulikowski 2006 , pp. 67, 212. "It is only the text of Jordanes that leads scholars to privilege the Wielbark connection... The Gotones mentioned in Tacitus, Germania 44.1 and located somewhere in what is now modern Poland would not be regarded as Goths if Jordanes' migration stories did not exist."
- ↑ Kulikowski 2011, p. 279.
- ↑ Kulikowski 2006 , p. 63. "Bierbrauer's simplistic ethnic ascription model is extreme, but only because it is articulated so clearly."
- ↑ Kulikowski 2006 , pp. 206, 208. "Peter Heather's Goths and Romans, 332–489 (Oxford, 1991) is the best treatment of its subject available in any language... Unfortunately, Heather's more recent works... [advocate a] neo-Romantic vision of mass migrations of free Germanic peoples... [Heather] lack[s] theoretical rigour in relating archaeological and historical evidence.
- ↑ Kulikowski 2006 , p. 206. "Herwig Wolfram's History of the Goths... is the most widely available [work on Gothic ethnogenesis in English]. Its mixture of outlandish philological speculation, faulty documentation, and oracular pronouncement remains very influential. Less bizarre, if wholly derivative, accounts of ethnogenesis are available in works by Wolfram's Anglophone apostles..."
- ↑ Kulikowski 2006, p. 206.
- 1 2 Humphries 2007, p. 128.
- ↑ Kulikowski 2006, p. 53.
- ↑ Kulikowski 2006, pp. 48–49, 60–61.
- ↑ Kulikowski 2006, p. 208.
- ↑ Kulikowski 2011, p. 278.
