Roman Frontier Studies 1995

by W. Groenman van Waateringe, Willem J. H. Willems

A huge collection of papers from the XVIth international congress of Roman Frontier Studies held at Kerkrade in the Netherlands in 1995. A tiny selection of the eighty-nine papers (53 in English, 29 in German, 7 in French) is as Ptolemy and the pre-Flavian military sites of Britain ( W H Manning ); Relationships between Roman river frontiers and artificial frontiers ( N Hodgson ); Recent excavations of the Late Roman signal station at Filey, North Yorkshire ( P Ottaway ); Les Nouvelles fouilles d'Alesia ( M Reddé and S von Schnurbein ); Supplying the Batavians at Vindolanda ( A R Birley ); Metalworking on Hadrian's wall ( L Allason-Jones and D B Dungworth ); Wirtschaftliche probleme und das ende des römischen Limes in Deutschland ( H-P Kuhnen ); The Roman frontier in the eastern of Egypt ( S E Sidebotham ); `The daughters of the regiment': sisters and wives in the Roman army ( C M Wells ); Why the Romans can't defeat the Julius Africanus and the strategy of magic ( E L Wheeler ).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1
The geography and strategy of Roman frontiers, including the reasons for their locations and the functions of military sites
Theme 1 Miliary deployment in an age of expansion
Theme 2 Problems of river frontiers versus artifical frontiers, differences and similarities
Theme 3 Problems of late defence

Chapter 2
Fouilles d'Alesia

Chapter 3
Problems of the relationship between buildings in forts, canabae and vici, objects found within them and their functions

Chapter 4
Across the military ,social and economic connections between the empire and the local population in the frontier zone

Chapter 5
Resources and supply of the army

Chapter 6
Miscellanea

608 pages, Hardcover

First published December 15, 1997