Irina Vladimirovna Zinkovskaya. Ermanarikha’s Gotland: Ostrogoths in Eastern Europe at the turn of Antiquity and the Middle Ages / I.V. Zinkovskaya. - M.; St. Petersburg: Center for Humanitarian Initiatives, 2018. - 464 p. — (MEDIAEVALIA) The book is the first monographic study of the kingdom of Ermanaric in the 4th century. Based on the analysis of the entire corpus of narrative, linguistic and archaeological sources, as well as the study of the rich historiographic heritage, the process of formation of Ostrogothic statehood is reconstructed for the first time, its place in world and domestic history is clarified. Deep changes in the life of the population of the south of Eastern Europe during the era of the Great Migration have been identified and comprehended. The study sheds light on the origins of European civilization, when at the turn of Antiquity and the Middle Ages the ethnic map of modern Europe, “barbarian” statehood, writing and law were formed. The book is addressed to historians, political scientists, cultural scientists, as well as a wide range of readers interested in the origins of European civilization at the turn of Antiquity and Middle Ages.