Rome and Barbaricum: Contributions to the Archaeology and History of Interaction in European Protohistory by Robin P. Symonds

Rome and Barbaricum: Contributions to the archaeology and history of interaction in European protohistory asks the following questions: How did the `Barbarians' influence Roman culture? What did `Roman-ness' mean in the context of Empire? What did it mean to be Roman and/or `Barbarian' in different contexts? The papers presented here explore the concepts of Romanisation and of Barbaricum from a multi-disciplinary and comparative standpoint, covering Germania, Dacia, Moesia Inferior, Hispania, and other regions of the Roman Empire. They deal with issues such as conceptual analysis of the term `barbarian', military and administrative organization, inter-cultural and linguistic relations, numismatics, religion, economy, prosopographic investigations, constructing identities; and they present reflections on the theoretical framework for a new model of Romanisation.
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