Table of Contents: “…The age of invasions -- The whirlwind of invasions -- The Barbarians: the Germanic world--the Asiatic background and the world of the steppes -- The Romans: Roman methods of resistance--the decline of the Empire in the West: Odoacer -- The land invasions: the first wave, the fourth and fifth centuries -- Invaders from the East: the Huns--the Alans--the Goths -- Invaders in the West: the Vandals--the Sueves in Spain--the Burgundians -- The land invasions: the second and third waves, fifth century to seventh century -- The second wave of invasions: the fifth century to the sixth century: the Franks--the Alamans--the Bavarians -- The third wave of invasions: the sixth and seventh centuries: the Lombards--the Avars -- The maritime migrations in North-west Europe -- The Germanic wave: pre-Vikings, Angles, Saxons, and Jutes -- Picts and Scots -- The British migrations to the South -- The collision of civilizations -- The conquests of Germanitas: a new linguistic frontier -- The resistance of the Roman world at different levels of society -- A new civilization -- An attempted assessment: regional variations -- General problems -- The origins of the 'barbarism' of the Early Middle Ages: 'barbarian invasions' or 'migrations of peoples'?…”