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

Walter A. Goffart

Published by Princeton University Press 1981

Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584

The Techniques of Accommodation

Walter A. Goffart
Edited by: Carl Erdmann

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691216317

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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 could be left in undisturbed possession of their lands because the proceeds of taxation,rather than land itself, were awarded to the barbarian troops and their leaders.

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"A wholly new interpretation. . . . Professor Goffart argues his case clearly, forcefully, and at length. He has the ancient sources at his fingertips."---E. A. Thompson, Times Literary Supplement

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ABBREVIATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
I. THE BARBARIANS IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND HOW THEY WERE ACCOMMODATED IN THE WEST Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II. THE ROMAN BASIS FOR BARBARIAN LAND ALLOTMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
III. ALLOTMENTS IN FIFTH-CENTURY ITALY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
IV. SETTLEMENTS IN GAUL. THE VISIGOTHS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
V. THE BURGUNDIANS: FROM ALLOTMENT TO OWNERSHIP Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
VI. HOSPITALITAS AND THE FIFTH-CENTURY SETTLEMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
VII. THE LOMBARDS AS LATECOMING "GUESTS" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
VIII. CONCLUSION: THE DEVOLUTION OF TAXATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
Appendix A. How Many Vandals Invaded Africa? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Appendix B. Interpretations of CE 276. 3-4 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Appendix C. Real Estate Not Declared for Assessment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Appendix D. Sidonius on "Hospitality" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Appendix E. Vegetius, Military Rations, and a Possible Connotation of fara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
INDEX TO MODERN AUTHORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267