Gothic history and historical ethnography
Herwig Wοlfram
It is difficult, for an Austrian, to pass judgement on the Goths. Anyone concerned with history of Goths must be resigned being misunderstood, falsely praised, or rejected. This hardly surprising, since subject so heavily laden ideological burden age-old tradition identification this people. almost impossible separate Gothic from emotions aroused by process once termed “The decline and fall Roman Empire”, which not yet universally known as transformation world”.
Journal of Medieval History