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Germanic peoples
editThanks for addressing your concerns about POV at Germanic peoples. You summed up the issues with the article very well. A certain group of historians, among whom Walter Goffart is the senior figure, believe that Germanic peoples never existed and that the concept of Germanic peoples should be banished from scholarship and replaced with the pejorative term "barbarian". They charge that the linguistic, archaeological and vernacular literary evidence on Germanic peoples is worthless, and that Germanic peoples were therefore an artificial Roman invention. Unfortunately, the questionable theories of these historians are being parroted at Wikipedia. See the archives at Talk:Germanic peoples and Talk:Goths for examples. For further study of this issue i recommend the following sources:
- Clay, Cheryl Louise (2008). "Developing the 'Germani' in Roman Studies". Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal. 1. Open Library of Humanities: 131–150. doi:10.16995/TRAC2007_131_150. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
- Neidorf, Leonard (2013). "The Dating of Widsið and the Study of Germanic Antiquity". Neophilologus. 97. Springer: 165–183. doi:10.1007/s11061-012-9308-2.
- Neidorf, Leonard (2018). "Beowulf as Pre-National Epic: Ethnocentrism in the Poem and its Criticism". ELH. 85 (4). Johns Hopkins University Press: 847–875. doi:10.1353/elh.2018.0031.
- Liebeschuetz, Wolf (2015). "The Debate about the Ethnogenesis of the Germanic Tribes". East and West in Late Antiquity: Invasion, Settlement, Ethnogenesis and Conflicts of Religion. Impact of Empire. Vol. 20. Brill. pp. 85–100. ISBN 978-90-04-28952-9. ISSN 1572-0500.
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editI should have mentioned this before:
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