Alaric the Goth. By Douglas Boin.W.W. Norton; 272 pages; $26.95 and £19.99. THE SMOKE began to rise above the orange-tiled roofs of the eternal city on August 24th 410AD. The watchmen had not seen the ...
Olaf Popkiewicz was conducting research near the Wda River in Poland when he spotted some objects made of silver. They were “unique” ancient grave goods from a 2,000-year-old Gothic necropolis, Wda ...
Goth is the subculture that never died – or more precisely, perhaps, remains undead. The persistence of the subculture’s style is due to the remarkable richness of the cultural tradition on which it ...