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A unique collection of papers looking at how the Gallo-Romans reacted to barbarian invasion.
Author : John Drinkwater
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 2002-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521529334
A unique collection of papers looking at how the Gallo-Romans reacted to barbarian invasion.
Author : Ralph W. Mathisen
Publisher :
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 15,99 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Gaul
ISBN :
Author : Ralph Mathisen
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0292729839
Skin-clad barbarians ransacking Rome remains a popular image of the "decline and fall" of the Roman Empire, but why, when, and how the Empire actually fell are still matters of debate among students of classical history. In this pioneering study, Ralph W. Mathisen examines the "fall" in one part of the western Empire, Gaul, to better understand the shift from Roman to Germanic power that occurred in the region during the fifth century AD Mathisen uncovers two apparently contradictory trends. First, he finds that barbarian settlement did provoke significant changes in Gaul, including the disappearance of most secular offices under the Roman imperial administration, the appropriation of land and social influence by the barbarians, and a rise in the overall level of violence. Yet he also shows that the Roman aristocrats proved remarkably adept at retaining their rank and status. How did the aristocracy hold on? Mathisen rejects traditional explanations and demonstrates that rather than simply opposing the barbarians, or passively accepting them, the Roman aristocrats directly responded to them in various ways. Some left Gaul. Others tried to ignore the changes wrought by the newcomers. Still others directly collaborated with the barbarians, looking to them as patrons and holding office in barbarian governments. Most significantly, however, many were willing to change the criteria that determined membership in the aristocracy. Two new characteristics of the Roman aristocracy in fifth-century Gaul were careers in the church and greater emphasis on classical literary culture. These findings shed new light on an age in transition. Mathisen's theory that barbarian integration into Roman society was a collaborative process rather than a conquest is sure to provoke much thought and debate. All historians who study the process of power transfer from native to alien elites will want to consult this work.
Author : Ralph Mathisen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 135189921X
Late Roman Gaul is often seen either from a classical Roman perspective as an imperial province in decay and under constant threat from barbarian invasion or settlement, or from the medieval one, as the cradle of modern France and Germany. Standard texts and "moments" have emerged and been canonized in the scholarship on the period, be it Gaul aflame in 407 or the much-disputed baptism of Clovis in 496/508. This volume avoids such stereotypes. It brings together state-of-the-art work in archaeology, literary, social, and religious history, philology, philosophy, epigraphy, and numismatics not only to examine under-used and new sources for the period, but also critically to reexamine a few of the old standards. This will provide a fresh view of various more unusual aspects of late Roman Gaul, and also, it is hoped, serve as a model for ways of interpreting the late Roman sources for other areas, times, and contexts.
Author : C. E. King
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Coins, Roman
ISBN :
Author : Ralph W. Mathisen
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Raymond Van Dam
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 2011-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1400821142
Saints' cults, with their focus on miraculous healings and pilgrimages, were not only a distinctive feature of Christian religion in fifth-and sixth-century Gaul but also a vital force in political and social life. Here Raymond Van Dam uses accounts of miracles performed by SS. Martin, Julian, and Hilary to provide a vivid and comprehensive depiction of some of the most influential saints' cults. Viewed within the context of ongoing tensions between paganism and Christianity and between Frankish kings and bishops, these cults tell much about the struggle for authority, the forming of communities, and the concept of sin and redemption in late Roman Gaul. Van Dam begins by describing the origins of the three cults, and discusses the career of Bishop Gregory of Tours, who benefited from the support of various patron saints and in turn promoted their cults. He then treats the political and religious dimensions of healing miracles--including their relation to Catholic theology and their use by bishops to challenge royal authority--and of pilgrimages to saints' shrines. The miracle stories, collected mainly by Gregory of Tours, appear in their first complete English translations.
Author : Ralph W. Mathisen
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,69 MB
Release : 1980
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Margaret Atkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 17,68 MB
Release : 2006-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1139458825
If poor individuals have always been with us, societies have not always seen the poor as a distinct social group. But within the Roman world, from at least the Late Republic onwards, the poor were an important force in social and political life and how to treat the poor was a topic of philosophical as well as political discussion. This book explains what poverty meant in antiquity, and why the poor came to be an important group in the Roman world, and it explores the issues which poverty and the poor raised for Roman society and for Roman writers. In essays which range widely in space and time across the whole Roman Empire, the contributors address both the reality and the representation of poverty, and examine the impact which Christianity had upon attitudes towards and treatment of the poor.
Author : Kevin Strand
Publisher :
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Acculturation
ISBN :