Geistes-, sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Anzeiger ‒ Zeitschrift der philosophisch-historischen Klasse der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 159. Jahrgang (2024)
Borders Matter: Rereading the Rhine-Danube Limes and the End of the Roman Empire
This issue reacts to Alexander Demandt’s fast-paced account of the rise and eventual fall of the Western Roman Empire, a topic of periodically hot political interest. His focus: Germanic barbarians and the Rhine-Danube limes, invasion, conflict, change, and loss (from the Empire’s perspective). The international contributors, primarily ancient historians and adherents of a more peaceable “transformation school,” respond and refine. The volume offers a study of client kingship as a strategy for...
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