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The Alamanni and Rome 213-496 (Caracalla to Clovis)
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The Alamanni and Rome 213-496 (Caracalla to Clovis)
John F. Drinkwater
ISBN: 0199295689 - Hardback- Oxford University Press

Could this be a comprehensive study of the Alamanni?

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"The Alamanni and Rome" focuses upon the end of the Roman Empire. From the third century AD, barbarians attacked and then overran the west. Some - Goths, Franks, Saxons - are well known, others less so. The latter include the Alamanni, despite the fact that their name is found in the French ('Allemagne') and Spanish ('Alemania') for 'Germany'. This pioneering study, the first in English, uses new historical and archaeological findings to reconstruct the origins of the Alamanni, their settlements, their politics, and their society, and to establish the nature of their relationship with Rome. John Drinkwater discovers the cause of their modern elusiveness in their high level of dependence on the Empire. Far from being dangerous invaders, they were often the prey of emperors intent on acquiring military reputations. When much of the western Empire fell to the Franks, so did the Alamanni, without ever having produced their own 'successor kingdom'.

Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Prelude
2. Arrival
3. Settlement
4. Society
5. Service
6. Conflict 285-355
7. Conflict 356-361
8. Conflict 365-394
9. The Fifth Century
Tot ziens.
Geert S. (Sol Invicto Comiti)
Imperator Caesar divi Marci Antonini Pii Germanici Sarmatici ½filius divi Commodi frater divi Antonini Pii nepos divi Hadriani pronepos divi Traiani Parthici abnepos divi Nervae adnepos Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus Arabicus ½Adiabenicus Parthicus maximus pontifex maximus
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Looks like a great book and Drinkwater is a good scholar - but it's a book with a hefty price! GBP65.. Confusedhock:
Robert Vermaat
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THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
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