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ancient trade networks
archaeological case studies
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augusta
Author_Hugh Elton
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Barbarian Territory
Batavian Cohorts
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Cohors XX Palmyrenorum
De Rebus Bellicis
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Equestrian Prefect
Flavius Cerialis
frontier theory
Gallic Civitates
germania
Germania Inferior
Germania Superior
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IV Macedonica
legio
Legio II Adiutrix
Legio IV Macedonica
Marcus Ulpius Traianus
military border studies
Moesia Inferior
niger
pescennius
Rhine Legions
Roman provincial administration
Servilius Vatia
social dynamics of imperial frontiers
Spasinou Charax
territory
Trajan
troops
Umm El Jimal
Velleius Paterculus
XV Primigenia
XVI Flavia Firma
XXI Rapax
XXII Primigenia
Product details
- ISBN 9780713473209
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 166 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 05 Apr 1996
- Publisher: Batsford
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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With its succinct analysis of the overriding issues and detailed case-studies based on the latest archaeological research, this social and economic study of Roman Imperial frontiers is essential reading.
Too often the frontier has been represented as a simple linear boundary. The reality, argues Dr Elton, was rather a fuzzy set of interlocking zones - political, military, judicial and financial.
After discussion of frontier theory and types of frontier, the author analyses the acquisition of an empire and the ways in which it was ruled. He addresses the vexed question of how to define the edges of provinces, and covers the relationship with allied kingdoms. Regional variation and different rates of change are seen as significant - as is illustrated by Civilis' revolt on the Rhine in AD 69. He uses another case-study - Dura-Europos - to exemplify the role of the army on the frontier, especially its relations with the population on both sides of the border. The central importance of trade is highlighted by special consideration of Palmyra.
Having taken his D. Phil at Oxford, Hugh Elton is currently at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. He is co-editor of Fifth-Century Gaul: a Crisis of Identity and the author of Warfare in Roman Europe.
