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| Genre/Form: | Conference papers and proceedings History Congresses konferenser |
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| Material Type: | Conference publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ralph W Mathisen; Danuta Shanzer |
| ISBN: | 9780754668145 0754668142 9781409412434 1409412431 |
| OCLC Number: | 637709803 |
| Notes: | Papers originally delivered at the 6th Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers of Late Antiquity, held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in Mar. 2005. |
| Description: | xix, 378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | pt. I: Constructing images of the impact and identity of Barbarians -- Literary constructions of Barbarian identity -- Catalogues of Barbarians in late antiquity -- Augustine and the merciful Barbarians -- 'Reguli' in the Roman Empire, late antiquity and the early medieval Germanic kingdoms -- Were the Sasanians Babarians? Roman writers ofn the "Empire of the Persians" -- A Roman image of the "Barbarian" Sasanians -- Political and religious interpretations of Barbarian activities -- Banditry or catastrophe?: history, archaeology and Barbarian raids on Roman Greece -- Imperial manupulation of perceptions of Barbarians raids on Roman Greece -- Johan Rufus, Timothy Aelurus and the fall of the western Roman Empire -- Imperial manupulation perceptions of Barbarians -- Imperial religious unification policy and its divisive consequences: Diocletian, the Jews and the Samaritans -- Hellenes, Barbarians and Christians: religion and identity politics in Diocletian's Rome -- Barbarians as spectacle: the account of an ancient "Embedded reporter" (Symm. (Or. 2.10-12) -- pt. II: Cultural interaction on the Roman/Barbarian frontiers -- Becoming Roman: movements of people across the frontier and the effects of imperial policies -- The 'ius colonatus' as a model for the settlement of Barbarian prisoner-of-war in the late Roman Empire? -- Spies like us: treason and identity in the late Roamn Empire -- The "runaway" Avars and late antique diplomacy -- Becoming Roman: social and economic interchange -- Capitivity and Romano-Barbarian interchange -- Barbarian raiders and Barbarian peasants: models of ideological and economic integration -- A new era of accommodation -- Kush and Rome on the Egyptian southern frontier: where Barbarians worshipped as Romans and Romans worshipped as Barbarians -- Petra and the Saracens: new evidence from a recently discovered epigram -- Elusive places: a chronological approach to identity and territory in Scythia Minor (second-seventh centuries) -- Barbarian traffic, demon oaths, and Christian scruples (Aug. Epist.46-47) -- pt. III: Creating identity in the post-Roman world -- Visigothic settlement, 'Hospitalitas" and army payment reconsidered -- Building and ehtnic idenity for a new Gothic and Roman nobility: Cordoba, 615 A.D. -- Vascones and Visigoths: creation and transformation on identity in northern Spain in late antiquity -- Idenity and ethnicity during the era of migrations and Barbarian kingdoms in the light of archaeology in Gaul -- Text, artifact and genome: the disputed nature of the Anglo-Saxon migration into Britain -- pt. IV: Epilogue: modern constructions of Barbarian identity -- Auguste Moutie, pioneer of Merovingian archaeology and the Spurlock Moerovingian Collection at the University of Illinois. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Ralph W. Mathisen and Danuta Shanzer. |
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'The present volume comprises twenty-five stimulating papers... the framework and its scrupulous edited papers constitute a research program applicable not only to peoples of western Eurasia but also to indigenes and outsiders in other periods.' The Historian '... a book well worth reading. All in all, this volume provides the reader with many different perspectives on barbarian and Roman interaction in late antiquity. Perhaps the most valuable contribution of the book is the recognition of the fact that the transformation of the Roman world took place in a Roman political, cultural and geographical context. Even the role of the barbarians was defined within Roman parameters and was dependent upon cultural traits as well as political and religious issues.' Opuscula 'This book is about 'the creation of [a] late antique polyethnic cultural world, with cultural frontiers between Romans and barbarians that were increasingly permeable in both directions' (p. 4). It is not the only way to approach this period, but the debate is one with which every scholar working on this period has to engage, and this volume is a significant contribution.' English Historical Review Read more...
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- Rome -- Civilization -- Congresses.
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