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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807009903321

Autore

Drinkwater J. F

Titolo

The Alamanni and Rome 213-496 (Caracalla to Clovis) / / John F. Drinkwater

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-15496-2

9786611154967

0-19-153777-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 408 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

937.004/39

Soggetti

Alemanni (Germanic people)

Rome History Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-389) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prelude -- Arrival -- Settlement -- Society -- Service -- Conflict 285-355 -- Conflict 356-61 -- Conflict 365-94 -- The fifth century -- Appendix : the Lyon medallion.

Sommario/riassunto

A pioneering study of the Alamanni, one of the so-called barbarian tribes raiding the Roman Empire in the third century AD. John Drinkwater uses new archaeological and historical findings to trace their complex, and sometime surprising, relationship with the world of imperial Rome. - ;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 Spanis