• Walter Andre Goffart (born February 22, 1934) is a German-born American historian who specializes in Late Antiquity and the European Middle Ages. He taught...
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  • student of Walter Goffart. Among his fellow students of Goffart were Andrew Gillett. After gaining his PhD, which was completed not with Walter Goffart, but...
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  • the throne in the subsequent actions of Charlemagne and his court. Walter Goffart argues that the Gesta Episcoporum Mettensium, written by Paul the Deacon...
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    Heather, Goths and Romans 332-489, Oxford 1991, pp. 47-49 (year 552), Walter Goffart, The Narrators of Barbarian History, Princeton 1988, p. 98 (year 554)...
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    generally consider the Heruli to be one of these. While historians such as Walter Goffart have pointed out that the Herules are never included in the lists of...
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  • most enduring periods of peace in the annals of civilization. However, Walter Goffart wrote: "The volume of the Cambridge Ancient History for the years AD...
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    court of Thurisind, where the Gepid king gave him Turismod's arms. Walter Goffart believes it is probable that in this narrative Paul was making use of...
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    but these are doubted by some modern scholars such as Ian Wood and Walter Goffart. As remarked by Susan Reynolds: Wood suggests that those who were called...
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    not have arisen through borrowing from attested Latin forms. Although Walter Goffart has objected that "no serious arguments substantiating the identification...
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    church, and Bishop Cynibert for information about Lindsey. The historian Walter Goffart argues that Bede based the structure of the Historia on three works...
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