As Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, Kingsley lectured on the barbarian invasions as a drama of forest children overwhelming a dying empire. He tells of the Goths, Theodoric the civilizer, the fall of the Gothic kingdom, the Lombards and the Franks, with Max Müller’s memorial preface to the author.
Vivid, romantic history; its enthusiasm for the Teutonic race is very much of the 1860s. Download the free EPUB.