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Thorough and convincing... likely to become the standard work on thesubject." -- Library Journal"Highly readable." -- MedievalLiterature"A major work of synthesis." -- Walter E. Kaegi"Burns has achieved much for the modern study of Ostrogoths." --Antiquaries Journal

This book is designed to explain when, how, and why the Romans began a policy of allowing large, unified, and potentially troublesome groups of barbarians onto Roman soil. It is also a study in the Roman decision-making processes that resulted from the flow of local and regional information up the chain and the corresponding strategic decisions moving downward through the administrative hierarchies.

The essays in this volume reevaluate the cities and towns of the Empire as centers of habitation, rather than archaeological museums, and reconsider the evidence of continuous and pervasive cultural change across the countryside.

What he describes is, in fact, a drawn-out period of acculturation, characterized more by continuity than by change and conflict and leading to the creation of a new Romano-barbarian hybrid society and culture that anticipated the values and traditions of medieval civilization.