Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584 : the techniques of accommodation / by Walter Goffart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goffart, Walter A., 1934- author.

Contributor:

Erdmann, Charles, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acculturation--Rome.

Acculturation.

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

Rome.

Rome--Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press, 1987.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preface

I. The Barbarians in late antiquity and how they were accommodated in the West

II. The Roman basis for Barbarian land allotments

III. Allotments in fifth-century Italy

IV. Settlements in Gaul : the Visigoths

V. The Burgundians : from allotment to ownership

VI. Hospitalitas and the fifth-century settlements

VII. The Lombards as latecoming "guests"

VIII. Conclusion: The devolution of taxation

Appendix A. How Many Vandals Invaded Africa?

Appendix B. Interpretations of CE 276. 3-4

Appendix C. Real Estate Not Declared for Assessment

Appendix D. Sidonius on "Hospitality"

Appendix E. Vegetius, Military Rations, and a Possible Connotation of fara

INDEX TO MODERN AUTHORS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780691102313

0691102317

9780691216317

0691216312

OCLC:

1178929768