Introduction: economic warfare -- The settlement of the barbarians in southern Gaul -- The Visigoths from Fritigern to Euric -- A.D. 476 and after -- The Byzantine conquest of Italy: military problems -- The Byzantine conquest of Italy: public opinion -- The end of Noricum -- Hydatius and the invasion of Spain -- The Suevic kingdom of Galicia -- The Gothic kingdom and the dark age of Spain -- Spain and Britain -- Barbarian collaborators and Christians.