A group dedicated to the study of Roman imperial frontiers (limites) through archaeology, history, material culture, and comparative frontier studies.
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Mike Bishop deposited The Corbridge Hoard revisited in the group
Roman Frontier Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week agoThis paper uses the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the publication of the original report on the Corbridge Hoard, together with the redisplay of the finds in the site museum at Corbridge, to review the findings of the original report. The ‘lorica segmentata’ armour is considered in the light of more recent finds from Carlisle (UK), Stillfried…[Read more]
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Mike Bishop deposited Trapp’d in silver: Roman cavalry equipment revisited in the group
Roman Frontier Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week agoAt the Fourth Roman Military Equipment Conference in Newcastle in 1987, I first explored the reconstruction of Roman cavalry harness, attempting to harmonise the evidence from sculptural representations and archaeological excavation. Much has been learned since then, and this paper attempts to review how some of the principles expounded back then…[Read more]
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Mike Bishop deposited Pimp my ride: early Imperial cavalry, saddle plates, and long-reining in the group
Roman Frontier Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week agoA select group of 1st-century AD ‘Totenmahl’ tombstones shows Roman auxiliary cavalry horses being long-reined. These same stones also provide the main sculptural evidence for the use of saddle plates. This paper begins by examining one set of privately owned horse harness and then broadens its focus to consider the wider implications of…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Die Bischofssitze Rätiens und Noricums vor ihrem historischen Hintergrund – Bruch und Kontinuität in the group
Roman Frontier Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoDieser Text soll auf drei Ebenen Fragen an die Quellen tragen. Erstens will ich versuchen, exemplarisch
Entwicklungslinien zwischen der antiken Provinzstruktur und dem bairischen Dukat
– einer militärisch-politischen Organisation nach spätantikem Muster – bis in karolingische Zeit
herauszuarbeiten. Zweitens soll die Frage gestellt werden, wie u…[Read more] -
Roland Steinacher deposited Ethnische Identität und die Meistererzählung von der Wanderung. Probleme der Frühgeschichte in Geschichtswissenschaft und Archäologie in the group
Roman Frontier Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoZusammenfassend lässt sich sagen, dass Ethnonyme
über einen sehr langen Zeitraum in Gebrauch
sein konnten. Im Falle der Veneder verschob sich
die Bedeutung. Sie galt nicht mehr nur für eine bestimmte
Gruppe, sondern bezog sich auf die Gesamtheit
der Fremden, die im Wahrnehmungsbereich der
eigenen Sprachgemeinschaft lagen. So wie man de…[Read more] -
Sasha Zamler-Carhart deposited The Goths & Other Stories in the group
Roman Frontier Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn the winter of 476 A.D. the Ostrogoths, hungry and exhausted from wandering for months along the barren confines of the Byzantine Empire, wrote to Emperor Zeno in Constantinople requesting permission to enter the walled city of Epidaurum and just kinda crash and charge their phones. Closer to home, Orpheus walks Eurydice through a suburban…[Read more]
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Konrad Stauner deposited Finanzliteralität im Imperium Romanum am Beispiel der argentarii und signiferi. Dokumentationsexperten im zivilen und militärischen Finanzwesen (späte Republik – Prinzipatszeit) in the group
Roman Frontier Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoFinancial literacy in the Roman Empire.
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Roland Steinacher deposited The So-called Laterculus Regum Vandalorum et Alanorum: A Sixth-century African Addition to Prosper Tiro’s Chronicle? in the group
Roman Frontier Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThis essay will show, however, that the text is not linked to diplomas, but belonged to an African version of Prosper’s chronicle. I will propose a new edition, which will put the text back in its original context. Rather than looking for ‘good’ and ‘bad’ texts according to 19th-century categories, I will try to analyze the specific character…[Read more]
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Rob Collins deposited Decline, collapse, or transformation? The case for the northern frontier of Britannia in the group
Roman Frontier Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis paper assesses the evidence for the collapse or otherwise of the northern frontier of Britannia, including Hadrian’s Wall, relative to received paradigms of ‘the end’ of Roman Britain.
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Rob Collins created the group
Roman Frontier Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months ago
