Barbarians and Romans 418-584 AD: Techniques of Accommodation Walter Goffart

Description: Barbarians and Romans, A. D. 418-584 : the Techniques of Accommodation by Walter Goffart 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. This study is concerned with an ostensibly peaceful and smooth process: how the paraphernalia of Roman government, both military and civil, was used and adapted when, in the fifth century, several barbarian peoples were accorded an establishment on provincial soil. The details of these arrangements are worth investigating because they tell us something about the prolongation of sophisticated state institutions into the early Middle Ages and about the conditions of property ownership in the earliest barbarian kingdoms. 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.Unread copy, mint from stock.

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