Walter Goffart: Quotes about the world

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“There was no Germanic world before the Carolingian age.”

Source: Quotaes, Barbarian Tides (2010), p. 55

“[M]any scholars of today in Europe and the United States still cherish the existence of a "Germanic world" long antedating medieval and modern Germany.”

Source: Quotaes, Barbarian Tides (2010), p. 40

“Germanic collectivity exists in linguistics but never existed anywhere else... [A]n "early Germanic world"... had no existence anywhere until it took form in the minds of scholars in sixteenth-century Europe and was thoughtlessly espoused by everyone else.”

Source: Quotaes, Barbarian Tides (2010), p. 25