Narrators of Barbarian History (a.D. 550–800), the - Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon

In this substantial work Walter Goffart treats the four writers who provide the principal narrative sources for our early knowledge of the Ostrogoths, Franks, Anglo-Saxons, and Lombards: Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon.