The last horizons of Roman Gaul : communication, coin circulation, and the limits of the Second Burgundian kingdom : a prosopographical, numismatic, and ceramic synthesis (ca. 395-550 CE) / Ryan H. Wilkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkinson, Ryan H., author.

Series:

BAR international series ; 3006.

BAR international series ; 3006

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coins--Gaul--History.

Coins.

Pottery--Gaul--History.

Pottery.

Gaul--History--58 B.C.-511 A.D.

Gaul.

Gaul--Foreign relations.

Gaul--Economic conditions.

Gaul--Social conditions.

Gaul--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Diplomatic relations.

Economic history.

Social conditions.

Europe--Gaul.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 107 pages) : illustrations (colour), maps (colour).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

Synthesising historical and archaeological approaches, this interdisciplinary study combines text-based prosopography with distribution analysis of ceramics and 'pseudo-imperial' coins in Burgundy and beyond. The study reveals that the frontiers of the second Burgundian kingdom (5th-6th centuries) curtailed traditional movements along one of Europe's key riverine corridors and reshaped, temporarily, the mental geographies imagined by local Gallo-Romans, until Merovingian princes conquered the region. The book includes a thorough assessment of the distribution of Burgundian coins found across France. Illuminating the Burgundian kingdom's internal dynamics and its foreign relations, this assessment revises understandings of the circulation of gold money across sixth-century Gaul, correcting over-generalisations that can obscure the importance of political frontiers at the end of antiquity.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 6, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781407356846

1407356844

OCLC:

1291224686