Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C. - A.D. 400. - BURNS, Th.S.,
KORTE INHOUD
'B. treats 500 years of Roman interaction with northerners, from the day of the Cimbri and Teutones until the morrow of the Gothic influx. (...) The principles first: (i) the most abiding contacts between Romans and northerners were those occurring in the Roman army; and (ii) the interactions were not the result of massive intrusions of northerners into Roma territory. Borrowing from the Greeks, the romans called the northerners 'barbari'- savages, stammering brutes. The cultural animus behind such a term is evident, and thus B. keeps a distance from it. He prefers another Roman characterization, one which the supposedly speech-impaired roughnecks were disposed to accept. The northerners were clients, their patrons at first being individual (and distinguished) Romans and later the Roman state. The Roman government maintained treaty relations with a leader, the principal client, and by extension the people he ruled. Now, having set perceptions and principles in order (pp.1-41 (...), B, is ready to generate the...
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2003Uitgever: John Hopkins University Press461 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0801873061ISBN-13: 9780801873065Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Baltimore / London, 2003. XIV,461p. Original grey cloth with dust wrps. Initials stamp, date and personal library mark on free endpaper. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: BURNS, Th.S.,] [Uitgever: John Hopkins University Press] [Jaar: 2003] [Titel: Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C. - A.D. 400.]
