Pannonia and Upper Moesia (Routledge Revivals): A History of the Middle Danube Provinces of the Roman Empire

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Routledge, Apr 8, 2014 - History - 530 pages

In Pannonia and Upper Moesia, first published 1974, András Mócsy surveys the Middle Danube Provinces from the latest pre-Roman Iron Age up to the beginning of the Great Migrations. His primary concern is to develop a general synthesis of the archaeological and historical researches in the Danube Basin, which lead to a more detailed knowledge of the Roman culture of the area.

The economic and social development, town and country life, culture and religion in the Provinces are all investigated, and the local background of the so-called Illyrian Predominance during the third century crisis of the Roman Empire is explained, as is the eventual breakdown of Danubian Romanisation.

This volume will appeal to students and teachers of archaeology alike, as well as to those interested in the Roman Empire – not only the history of Rome itself, but also of the far-flung areas which together comprised the Empire’s frontier for centuries.

 

Contents

Chapter 1 Thracians Illyrians and Celts
1
Chapter 2 Conquest of the Danube region and Augustan frontier policy
31
Chapter 3 Native population and settlement
53
Chapter 4 The Danube frontier from Vespasian to Marcus Aurelius
80
Chapter 5 The first age of prosperity
112
the rise of the Illyrican soldiery
183
rise and collapse
213
Chapter 8 The Danube frontier in the late Roman period
266
Chapter 9 The final period of prosperity
297
Chapter 10 The beginning of the Dark Age
339
Abbreviations
359
Notes
363
Select Bibliography
407
Indexes
429
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