Via Muhlberger's Early History a review of Edward James' Europe’s Barbarians AD 200-600. The bibliography is especially mentioned as noteworthy, significant in a field that is moving at such a fast pace:
He [James] calls movements of Visigoths and Vandals, movements of “barbarian peoples,” showing reluctance to depart completely from old paradigms. But in the analytic portion... he caves in, stating: "My own conclusion would be that the break-up of the Western Roman Empire occurred because, in the different provinces, local populations began to give their allegiances to local warlords, rather than to the emperor, because those warlords were more effective as protectors and patrons. Not all these warlords were barbarians, but the majority were, because of the domination of barbarians within the Roman army."
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