Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584
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Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584

The Techniques of Accommodation

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Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584

The Techniques of Accommodation

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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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INDEX
actuarius, see paymaster
Adrianople, battle of, 7, 11, 33
Aëtius, patrician, 36, 58, 65, 106, 111, 151, 176, 212, 213
Africa, modern, 11, 22n; Roman and Vandal North, 17, 36, 44n, 46, 67n, 68n, 201n, 226n, 231, 232n, 234
ager (field), cum mancipiis, 128, 131, 133, 149n, 152, 153, 156, 157, 161, 185, 187; desertus, 112, 113, 147, 217, 242-43; in Burgundian laws, 133, 137, 159. See also terra
agriculture, 28, 29n, 51, 55, 80, 81, 82, 104, 110, 113n, 132, 191, 205, 218, 221, 223, 225
Agrippinus, 246n
Alamanni, 9, 14, 30, 34n, 233n. See also Juthungi, Lex Alamannorum
Alans, 31, 33, 67n; settlements of in Gaul, 36, 57, 111-14, 217
Alaric, king of the Visigoths, 5n, 6, 7, 66n, 67n, 68, 115n, 174n
Alboin, king of the Lombards, 179, 256, 257. See also Rosamund
aldius, see bondage
allotment (sors), 36, 38, 40, 51, 53-55, 162, 164, 166, 171, 172, 207, 208, 210, 220, 228, 239, 244, 248; as package, 140-42, 149; Burgundian, 103-18 passim, 127-61 passim, 186, 256; chronology of, 36, 50n, 60, 100, 105, 108, 109, 123-24, 130, 150, 152, 159-61, 166n, 184-85, 187, 196-97, 207, 216; in Vandal Africa, 68n; Lombard, 176-205 passim; Ostrogothic, 58-102 passim, 103, 114, 144n, 160, 164n; pract...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Preface
  8. I. The Barbarians in Late Antiquity and How They Were Accommodated in the West
  9. II. The Roman Basis for Barbarian Land Allotments
  10. III. Allotments in Fifth-Century Italy
  11. IV. Settlements in Gaul. The Visigoths
  12. V. The Burgundians: From Allotment to Ownership
  13. VI. Hospitalitas and The Fifth-Century Settlements
  14. VII. The Lombards as Latecoming “Guests”
  15. VIII. Conclusion: The Devolution of Taxation
  16. Appendix A. How Many Vandals Invaded Africa?
  17. Appendix B. Interpretations of CE 276. 3-4
  18. Appendix C. Real Estate Not Declared for Assessment
  19. Appendix D. Sidonius on “Hospitality”
  20. Appendix E. Vegetius, Military Rations, and a Possible Connotation of fara
  21. Short Title Index of Modern Authors
  22. Index