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041852 HTA256/356 Barbarian Kingdoms: Medieval Europe AD 300-700 Major Assignment Q.6 " 'The only thing we can truly know about early medieval barbarians is their sense of ethnicity.' Critically asses with reference to both primary sources and the arguments of modern secondary scholars." There has always been, and will most likely continue to be, great debate as to what we can or cant truly known about the "Barbarians". To the peoples of ancient Greece, and later, Rome, a barbarian was 'anyone who was not of their extraction or culture. Because most of these "strangers" regularly practiced raids upon these civilizations, the term "barbarian" gradually evolved into a perjorative term: a person who was sub-human, uncivilized, and regularly practiced the most vile and inhuman acts imaginable'. 1 In a good overall summary of the barbarians, it has been stated that these 'Barbarians' were 'a tall, fierce, fair- haired and fair-skinned people, in contrast to their swarthy...

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