Editorial

Guardroom

Society of Ancients Conference

The Goths 2: From Alaric to Theoderic the Great by Michael Friedholm von Essen

Restoring New Rome - the strategy and military of the Byzantine Empire in the mid-1100s by David Harvey

Refighting Adrianople 378 AD with DBMM by Jens Peter Kutz

Legion II Fast Play Expansion by Philip Sabin

The Goths - 2: From Alaric to Theoderic the Great and Beyond

£18.75

This is the second of two books which describe the Goths, their arms and armour, dress and equipment, army organisation, campaigns, battle tactics, and strategy.

The focus of this second volume is the Goths after their entry into the Roman Empire. The emphasis lies on the Goths themselves, the kingdoms they established, and their military history, rather than their part in the Late Empire’s history.

From the fourth century onwards, the Goths crossed Europe from one end to the other. They were the first Germanic people to establish lasting kingdoms in core Roman territories such as Italy and Spain, the first to successfully create a synthesis of Germanic and Roman elements, and the first non-Mediterranean people in Europe to enjoy an independent intellectual literary culture. The Gothic writing system was a major source of inspiration for the Cyrillic alphabet. In the Crimea, the last independent Gothic state outlived the Byzantine Empire for 22 years. Their legacy lasted far longer than their kingdoms.

The Goths were not the first lance-armed heavy shock cavalry in Europe, but they became so noted for it that cavalry of the Gothic type achieved an increasingly dominant role in all surviving Romano-Germanic successor states. Without the Goths, the medieval knight as we know him, armed with spear and shield, would

not have existed.

This book is illustrated with 80 plates, maps, illustrations and photographs of original items. 

SLINGSHOT, the bi-monthly journal of the Society, is the most admired publication in its field. This USB stick includes every Slingshot produced from 1965 to 2020. It constitutes an invaluable resource of over 13,000 pages about ancient and medieval history and wargaming. The collection is fully indexed and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader version 7.0 or later.