Social Dynamics in the Northwest Frontiers of the Late Roman Empire

Front matter

N. Roymans, S. Heeren, W. De Clercq

Studies

Archaeological

Preface

Introduction. New perspectives on the Late Roman Northwest

Nico Roymans / Stijn Heeren LATE ROMAN STATE AND MILITARY ORGANISATION

The Late Roman imperial centre and its northwest frontier Peter Heather

The Roman army and military defence in Northern Gaul and the Germanic provinces during the Late Empire Raymond Brulet

POWER RELATIONS AND MATERIAL CULTURE

Gold, Germanic foederati and the end of imperial power in the Late Roman North Nico Roymans

Hacksilber in the Late Roman and Early Medieval world — economics, frontier politics and imperial legacies Fraser Hunter / Kenneth Painter (F)

A symbol of Late Roman authority revisited: a sociohistorical understanding of the crossbow brooch Vince Van Thienen

REGIONAL CASE STUDIES

The Late Roman town of Tongeren

Alain Vanderhoeven From Germania Inferior to Germania Secunda and beyond. A case study of migration, transformation and decline

Stijn Heeren

Roman state involvement in Britain in the later 4" century: an ebbing tide?

Simon Esmonde Cleary

Decline, Collapse, or Transformation? The case for the northern frontier of Britannia Rob Collins

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

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