A most dangerous book

Description:

This book traces the Roman writer's portrait of the "ancient Germans" from its genesis and political context in the 1st and 2nd century CE over its survival through the Middle Ages and rediscovery in the Renaissance to the Third Reich. It thereby examines the book's influence on the internal and external image of the Germans, as distinguished from the "Germanen", the original subject of the study.

subjects: Germania,  Renaissance,  Group identity,  Roman Empire,  German National characteristics,  History,  Tacitus, cornelius,  Germanic peoples,  Germany, history,  New York Times reviewed,  National socialism,  Philosophy,  Nazi propaganda

People: Cornelius Tacitus,  Gnaeus Iulius Agricola

Places: Germany

Times: 1st to 20th century CE