The Alamanni and Rome 213-496 (Caracalla to Clovis)

by Drinkwater, John F.

• ISBN13: 9780199295685
• ISBN10: 0199295689
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 Spanish ('Alemania') for 'Germany'. This pioneering study, the first in English, uses new historical and archaeological findings to reconstruct the origins of the Alamanni, their settlements, their politics, and their society, and to establish the nature of their relationship withRome. John Drinkwater discovers the cause of their modern elusiveness in their high level of dependence on the Empire. Far from being dangerous invaders, they were often the prey of emperors intent on acquiring military reputations. When much of the western Empire fell to the Franks, so did theAlamanni, without ever having produced their own 'successor kingdom'.

Author Biography

John F. Drinkwater is Emeritus Professor of Roman Imperial History, Department of Classics, University of Nottingham.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Prelude
Arrival
Settlement
Society
Service
Conflict	p. 285
Conflict	p. 356
Conflict	p. 365
The Fifth Century
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