Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584
Title | Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584 PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Goffart |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2020-07-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691216312 |
Despite intermittent turbulence and destruction, much of the Roman West came under barbarian control in an orderly fashion. Goths, Burgundians, and other aliens were accommodated within the provinces without disrupting the settled population or overturning the patterns of landownership. Walter Goffart examines these arrangements and shows that they were based on the procedures of Roman taxation, rather than on those of military billeting (the so-called hospitalitas system), as has long been thought. Resident proprietors could be left in undisturbed possession of their lands because the proceeds of taxation,rather than land itself, were awarded to the barbarian troops and their leaders.
Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 415-584
Title | Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 415-584 PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Goffart |
Publisher | |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Rome |
ISBN | 9780691053035 |
Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584
Title | Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584 PDF eBook |
Author | Walter A. Goffart |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1987-10-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780691102313 |
Despite intermittent turbulence and destruction, much of the Roman West came under barbarian control in an orderly fashion. Goths, Burgundians, and other aliens were accommodated within the provinces without disrupting the settled population or overturning the patterns of landownership. Walter Goffart examines these arrangements and shows that they were based on the procedures of Roman taxation, rather than on those of military billeting (the so-called hospitalitas system), as has long been thought. Resident proprietors could be left in undisturbed possession of their lands because the proceeds of taxation,rather than land itself, were awarded to the barbarian troops and their leaders.
Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C.–A.D. 400
Title | Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C.–A.D. 400 PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas S. Burns |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 607 |
Release | 2009-07-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0801899222 |
This historical analysis of Roman-Barbarian relations from the Republic into late antiquity offers a striking new perspective on the fall of the Empire. The barbarians of antiquity, often portrayed simply as the savages who destroyed Rome, emerge in this colorful, richly textured history as a much more complex factor in the expansion, and eventual unmaking, of the Roman Empire. Thomas S. Burns marshals an abundance of archeological and literary evidence to bring forth a detailed and wide-ranging account of the relations between Romans and non-Romans along the frontiers of western Europe. Looking at a 500-year time span beginning with early encounters between barbarians and Romans around 100 B.C. and ending with the spread of barbarian settlement in the western Empire, Burns reframes the barbarians as neighbors, friends, and settlers. His nuanced history subtly shows how Rome’s relations with the barbarians slowly evolved from general ignorance, hostility, and suspicion toward tolerance, synergy, and integration. This long period of acculturation led to a new Romano-barbarian hybrid society and culture that anticipated the values and traditions of medieval civilization.
Barbarian Tides
Title | Barbarian Tides PDF eBook |
Author | Walter A. Goffart |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Europe |
ISBN | 9780812239393 |
Barbarian Tides radically subverts the grand narrative of a "Germanic" migration and reinvents the role of barbarians in the Later Roman Empire. Goffart sets out how the fragmented foreign peoples once living on the edges of the Empire participated with the Romans in the larger stirrings of late antiquity.
In Praise of Later Roman Emperors
Title | In Praise of Later Roman Emperors PDF eBook |
Author | C. E. V. Nixon |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 750 |
Release | 2015-03-18 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0520286251 |
Here, for the first time, is an annotated English translation of the eleven later panegyrics (291-389 C.E.) of the XII Panegyrici Latini, with the original Latin text prepared by R. A. B. Mynors. Each panegyric has a thorough introduction, and detailed commentary on historical events, style, figures of speech, and rhetorical strategies accompanies the translations. The very difficult Latin of these insightful speeches is rendered into graceful English, yet remains faithful to the original.
The Restoration of Rome
Title | The Restoration of Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Heather |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 505 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199368511 |
"First published in 2013 in Great Britain by Macmillan."--Title page verso.