Walter Goffart on Mind
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Walter Goffart, catalogued under mind, with dates where available.
This page displays 2 quotations attributed to Walter Goffart and filed under "mind" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Walter Goffart, entry #59335: "The main goal of this book is to reform thinking and writing about the barbarians in late antiquity by driving out the anachronistic terms "German" and "Germanic" and the baggage …"
Attributed to Walter Goffart, entry #60055: "Germanic collectivity exists in linguistics but never existed anywhere else... n "early Germanic world"... had no existence anywhere until it took form in the minds of scholars in…"
2 Quotes by Walter Goffart on Mind
"The main goal of this book is to reform thinking and writing about the barbarians in late antiquity by driving out the anachronistic terms "German" and "Germanic" and the baggage that goes with them."
"Germanic collectivity exists in linguistics but never existed anywhere else... 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."