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The Alamanni and Rome 213-496

By John F. Drinkwater

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2007
ISBN
0199295689, 9780199295685, 9780191537776
Google Books ID
LtCQ2mz6b5cC
Open Library ID
OL22746036M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9182723 bytes)
Series
Caracalla to Clovis
Pages
421\421
Topic
History
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47
Исторические дисциплины;Всемирная история;История

Description

The Alamanni and Rome focuses upon the end of the Roman Empire. From the third century AD, barbarians attacked and then overran the west. Some--Goths, Franks, Saxons--are well known, others less so. The latter include the Alamanni, despite the fact that their name is found in the French (''Allemagne'') and Spanish (''Alemania'') for ''Germany.'' This pioneering study, the first in English, uses new historical and archaeological findings to reconstruct the origins of the Alamanni, their settlements, their politics, and their society, and to establish the nature of their relationship with Rome. John Drinkwater discovers the cause of their modern elusiveness in their high level of dependence on the Empire. Far from being dangerous invaders, they were often the prey of emperors intent on acquiring military reputations. When much of the western Empire fell to the Franks, so did the Alamanni, without ever having produced their own ''successor kingdom.''

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