Relations between the Late Roman World and Barbarian Europe in the Light of Coin Finds
And so, during a period of well developed exchange between the Roman Empire and the Barbaricum, coinciding with the Golden Age and the House of Antonine, Roman coins started to flow more intensively in the reign of the last two Antonine emperors.
Odoacer: German or Hun?
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
Barbarian interest in the Excerpta Latina Barbari
Barbarian interest in the Excerpta Latina Barbari By Benjamin Garstad Early Medieval Europe, Vol.19:1 (2011) Abstract: Joseph Justus Scaliger dubbed the text of…
Warrior Bands, War Lords, and the Birth of Tribes and States in the First Millennium AD in Middle Europe
Warrior Bands, War Lords, and the Birth of Tribes and States in the First Millennium AD in Middle Europe By Heiko Steuer Warfare…
The Militarisation of Roman Society, 400 – 700
The Militarisation of Roman Society, 400 – 700 By Edward James Military Aspects of Scandinavian Society in a European Perspective AD 1 –…
The End of the Roman Empire and the Start of the Middle Ages
Articles related to the end of the Roman Empire and the transformation of Europe during the early Middle Ages: Pots and boundaries: On…
Land, freedom and the making of the medieval West
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