The authors of this publication explore new ways to understand barbarians in the early Middle Ages, and to analyse the images of the period constructed by modern scholarship.

" To conclude, On Barbarian Identity is an unqualified success from a methodological perspective, and provides a strong basis for moving ahead in our efforts to try to understand how various groups of people were brought into being during the later Roman Empire and the early Middle Ages."  (B.S. Bachrach in The International History Review, December 2003, p.870)

"This stimulating volume is bound to bring discussions of early medieval ethnogenesis to a broader English-speaking audience in the coming years." (B. Effros, in: The Medieval Review, 03.12.08)