The careers of Odoacer, of his father, and of his brother – even of his ill-fated son – were entirely consistent with those which could have been achieved by noble Huns in the generation after Attila’s death
Visigoths and Romans: Integration and Ethnicity
November 15, 2011 By
The year was 414 and Galla Placidia, Roman princess and half-sister of Honorius, emperor of the Western Empire, sat next to Athaulf, barbarian king of the Visigoths
Warrior Bands, War Lords, and the Birth of Tribes and States in the First Millennium AD in Middle Europe
January 16, 2011 By
Warrior Bands, War Lords, and the Birth of Tribes and States in the First Millennium AD in Middle Europe By Heiko Steuer Warfare and society : archaeological and social anthropological perspectives, edited by Ton Otto, Henrik Thrane and Helle Vandkilde (Aarhus, 2006) Introduction: It is my intention to formulate a model on war. But it is […]
The Militarisation of Roman Society, 400 – 700
December 17, 2010 By
The Militarisation of Roman Society, 400 – 700 By Edward James Military Aspects of Scandinavian Society in a European Perspective AD 1 – 1300, edited by Anne Norgard Jorgensen and Birthe L. Clausen (Copenhagen, 1997) Introduction: Historians and archaeologists have lavished attention on the new kingdoms established by various barbarian peoples in the former western […]
The End of the Roman Empire and the Start of the Middle Ages
December 4, 2010 By
Articles related to the end of the Roman Empire and the transformation of Europe during the early Middle Ages: Pots and boundaries: On cultural and economic areas between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, by Paul Arthur - Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean : Archaeology and archaeometry (2007) Relation […]
Land, freedom and the making of the medieval West
April 22, 2010 By
In the course of the fifth and sixth centuries, barbarian warbands acquired property rights in the former provinces of the Roman west, in a process that established the broad structural characteristics of early medieval society in western Europe
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