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Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World - Cultural Interaction and the Creation of Identity in Late Antiquity (Paperback)
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Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World - Cultural Interaction and the Creation of Identity in Late Antiquity (Paperback)
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One of the most significant transformations of the Roman world in
Late Antiquity was the integration of barbarian peoples into the
social, cultural, religious, and political milieu of the
Mediterranean world. The nature of these transformations was
considered at the sixth biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late
Antiquity Conference, at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign in March of 2005, and this volume presents an
updated selection of the papers given on that occasion,
complemented with a few others,. These 25 studies do much to break
down old stereotypes about the cultural and social segregation of
Roman and barbarian populations, and demonstrate that, contrary to
the past orthodoxy, Romans and barbarians interacted in a multitude
of ways, and it was not just barbarians who experienced
"ethnogenesis" or cultural assimilation. The same Romans who
disparaged barbarian behavior also adopted aspects of it in their
everyday lives, providing graphic examples of the ambiguity and
negotiation that characterized the integration of Romans and
barbarians, a process that altered the concepts of identity of both
populations. The resultant late antique polyethnic cultural world,
with cultural frontiers between Romans and barbarians that became
increasingly permeable in both directions, does much to help
explain how the barbarian settlement of the west was accomplished
with much less disruption than there might have been, and how
barbarian populations were integrated seamlessly into the old Roman
world.
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