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Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584: The Techniques of Accommodation

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Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584: The Techniques of Accommodation - Goffart, Walter, and Erdmann, Carl (Editor)
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Despite intermittent turbulence and destruction, much of the Roman West came under barbarian control in an orderly fashion. Goths, Burgundians, and other aliens were accommodated within the provinces without disrupting the settled population or overturning the patterns of landownership. Walter Goffart examines these arrangements and shows that they were based on the procedures of Roman taxation, rather than on those of military billeting (the so-called hospitalitas system), as has long been thought. Resident proprietors ...

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Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584: The Techniques of Accommodation 1987, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691102313

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