The Alamanni and Rome 213-496 (Caracalla to Clovis) / John F. Drinkwater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drinkwater, J. F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alemanni (Germanic people).

Rome--History--Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 408 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A pioneering study of the Alamanni, one of the so-called barbarian tribes raiding the Roman Empire in the third century AD. John Drinkwater uses new archaeological and historical findings to trace their complex, and sometime surprising, relationship with the world of imperial Rome. - ;The Alamanni and Rome focuses upon the end of the Roman Empire. From the third century AD, barbarians attacked and then overran the west. Some - Goths, Franks, Saxons - are well known, others less so. The latter include the Alamanni, despite the fact that their name is found in the French ('Allemagne') and Spanis

Contents:

Prelude

Arrival

Settlement

Society

Service

Conflict 285-355

Conflict 356-61

Conflict 365-94

The fifth century

Appendix : the Lyon medallion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-389) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-15496-2

9786611154967

0-19-153777-2

OCLC:

437096026