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Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584
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| #1035942 in Books | Princeton University Press | 1987-10-01 | Format: Deluxe Edition | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.67 x5.50l,.76 | File type: PDF | 296 pages | ||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Plausible, possible, but not convincing|By Caleb Hanson|This book is a study of one particular question: just what was the arrangement called 'hospitalitas', by which several Germanic tribes were peaceably (more or less) settled in Roman territory in the 5th and 6th centuries? The traditional view is that it was based on the old Roman system for quartering soldiers with civilia||"A wholly new interpretation. . . . Professor Goffart argues his case clearly, forcefully, and at length. He has the ancient sources at his fingertips."--E. A. Thompson, Times Literary Supplement
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...
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