Ebook: The Roman Empire and Southern Scandinavia - a Northern Connection!

A re-evaluation of military-political relations between the Roman Empire and the Barbaricum in the first three centuries AD with a special emphasis on southern Scandinavia. Submitted as Ph.D.-dissertation at the SAXO-Institute, University of Copenhagen. The aim of this work is to enhance the knowledge of Roman relations to the northern Barbaricum, i.e. southern Scandinavia. The nature and extent of the northern parts of the Roman Empire has for long been thoroughly examined within a multitude of scholarly disciplines. Likewise, the parts of Europe outside the Roman Empire have undergone thorough scholarly examination. However, whereas the Roman Empire has attracted the attention of both historians, philologists and archaeologists, northern Europe has mainly been subjected to the scrutiny of prehistorical archaeologists. But the fact that one area was seen to have influenced the other is quite apparent as the period of interest in prehistorical chronology is labelled 'The Roman Iron Age'. That the two parts of Europe were not completely isolated is of course well known and for one thing illustrated by the numerous finds of Roman origin in northern Europe. However, within provincial Roman research, represented by both classical and prehistorical archaeologists as well as historians, Roman-'Barbarian' contacts has generated an interest in the immediate vicinity of the Roman borders. The parts of Europe more distantly situated from the Roman Empire have primarily been of interest to prehistorical archaeologists alone, who have looked southwards with a base in the local context.

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A re-evaluation of military-political relations between the Roman Empire and the Barbaricum in the first three centuries AD with a special emphasis on southern Scandinavia. Submitted as Ph.D.-dissertation at the SAXO-Institute, University of Copenhagen. The aim of this work is to enhance the knowledge of Roman relations to the northern Barbaricum, i.e. southern Scandinavia. The nature and extent of the northern parts of the Roman Empire has for long been thoroughly examined within a multitude of scholarly disciplines. Likewise, the parts of Europe outside the Roman Empire have undergone thorough scholarly examination. However, whereas the Roman Empire has attracted the attention of both historians, philologists and archaeologists, northern Europe has mainly been subjected to the scrutiny of prehistorical archaeologists. But the fact that one area was seen to have infl uenced the other is quite apparent as the period of interest in prehistorical chronology is labelled 'The Roman Iron Age'. That the two parts of Europe were not completely isolated is of course well known and for one thing illustrated by the numerous finds of Roman origin in northern Europe. However, within provincial Roman research, represented by both classical and prehistorical archaeologists as well as historians, Roman-'Barbarian' contacts has generated an interest in the immediate vicinity of the Roman borders. The parts of Europe more distantly situated from the Roman Empire have primarily been of interest to prehistorical archaeologists alone, who have looked southwards with a base in the local context.

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A re-evaluation of military-political relations between the Roman Empire and the Barbaricum in the first three centuries AD with a special emphasis on southern Scandinavia. Submitted as Ph.D.-dissertation at the SAXO-Institute, University of Copenhagen. The aim of this work is to enhance the knowledge of Roman relations to the northern Barbaricum, i.e. southern Scandinavia. The nature and extent of the northern parts of the Roman Empire has for long been thoroughly examined within a multitude of scholarly disciplines. Likewise, the parts of Europe outside the Roman Empire have undergone thorough scholarly examination. However, whereas the Roman Empire has attracted the attention of both historians, philologists and archaeologists, northern Europe has mainly been subjected to the scrutiny of prehistorical archaeologists. But the fact that one area was seen to have infl uenced the other is quite apparent as the period of interest in prehistorical chronology is labelled 'The Roman Iron Age'. That the two parts of Europe were not completely isolated is of course well known and for one thing illustrated by the numerous finds of Roman origin in northern Europe. However, within provincial Roman research, represented by both classical and prehistorical archaeologists as well as historians, Roman-'Barbarian' contacts has generated an interest in the immediate vicinity of the Roman borders. The parts of Europe more distantly situated from the Roman Empire have primarily been of interest to prehistorical archaeologists alone, who have looked southwards with a base in the local context.