Description
Book SynopsisGermania was one of the most important and complex zones of cultural interaction and conflict between Rome and neighbouring societies. A vast region, it became divided into urbanised provinces with elaborate military frontiers and the northern part of the continental ''Barbaricum''. Recent decades have seen a major effort by German archaeologists, ancient historians, epigraphers, numismatists, and other specialists to explore the Roman era in their own territory, with rich and often surprising new knowledge. This Handbook aims to make the results of this great effort of modern German and overwhelmingly German-language scholarship more widely available to Anglophone scholarship on the empire. Archaeology and ancient history are international enterprises characterised by specific national scholarly traditions; this is notably true of the study of Roman-era Germania. This volume compromises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars working in Germany, presenting the latest developments in current research as well as situating their work within wider international scholarship through a series of critical responses from other, very different, national perspectives. In doing so, this book aims to reveal the riches of the archaeology of Roman Germany, promote the achievements of German scholars in the area, and help facilitate continued English and German language discourses on the Roman era.
Trade Review...this excellent book fills a long-underserved need for up-to-date information on, and interpretation of, the Romans' activities in ancient Germany. Regardless of language, it is a valuable contribution to the subject. * Lindsay Powell, Ancient Warfare *
A new Oxford Handbook to the Archaeology of Roman Germany looks set to become the go-to resource for those researching, teaching, and studying the provinces of the Roman North... * Michael Squire, Greece & Rome *
a highly informative invitation to all classical archaeologists to explore recent analyses of the rich archaeological datasets available for the Roman Empire's German provinces ... this volume is an invaluable primer and call to action for all Roman archaeologists who want to engage with current, mostly German-language research on the Roman German provinces, Upper German-Raetian limes, and Germania Magna/Barbaricum. * Matthew Schueller, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
Table of ContentsSimon James & Stefan Krmnicek: Introduction Part I: Prelude, Conquest, and Provincialisation 1. Occupation and Consolidation 1: Susanne Sievers: The Lands of Germania in the Later Pre-Roman Iron Age 2: Reinhard Wolters: Emergence of the Provinces 2. Creating a Provincial Landscape 3: Klaus Kortüm: Archaeology of Germania Superior: Urban Settlements 4: Norbert Hanel: Archaeology of Germania Inferior: Urbanization 5: Thomas Maurer: Roman Rural Landscape Occupation in Present-Day Germany: An Overview Part II: Core Provinces at the Edge of Empire 3. Wars and Frontiers 6: Günther Moosbauer: Roman Battlefields in Germany: Kalkriese and Harzhorn 7: Martin Kemkes: The Limes 4. An Integrated Economy 8: Susanne Biegert and Markus Helfert: Roman Pottery Research in Germany 9: David Wigg-Wolf: Coinage and Money in the Roman Rhineland 5. Constituting Provincial Identity 10: Constanze Höpken: Religion, Cult, and Burial Customs in the German Provinces 11: Krešimir Matijević: Writing and Literacy/Illiteracy 12: Alexandra W. Busch and Henner von Hesberg: Provincial Art Part III: The Transformation of Power 6. Crisis of the Third Century 13: Marcus Reuter: 'Vi barbarorum absumptam': A Military History of Roman Germany during the Third Century AD 14: Michaela Konrad: Crisis Research in a Civil Context 7. Germani and Rome 15: Claus von Carnap-Bornheim: The Germani and the German Provinces of Rome 16: Michael Meyer: Roman Cultural Influence in Western Germania Magna 17: Claudia Theune: Transformations in the Roman West: The Case of the Alamanni 8. After Rome 18: Hubert Fehr: The Transformation into the Early Middle Ages 19: Alexander Heising: Reception and History of Research in the Roman Provinces of Germany Part IV: External Perspectives and Final Thoughts 9. The Foreign Commentaries 20: Nico Roymans: The Archaeology of Roman Germany, A Dutch Perspective 21: Michel Reddé: Roman Germania? What Germania? 22: Ian Haynes: Germanies, Britains, and the Roman World 23: Philip Kiernan: Roman Germany and Provincial Archaeology, The North American Perspective 10. Final Word 24: Thomas Fischer: Concluding Remarks on the Handbook of the Archaeology of Roman Germany
