Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584

Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584
Author: Walter Goffart
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691216312


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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.