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IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 508: Beyond the Invasion Narrative: The Roman World and Its Neighbours in Late Antiquity, III - Romans and Barbarians in Britain

Tuesday 12 July 2011, 09.00-10.30

Organiser:Guy Halsall, Department of History, University of York
Moderator/Chair:Simon MacLean, Department of History, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Paper 508-aFrom Ciuitas to Kingdom?: Romanitas in the British Provinces and beyond
(Language: English)
Alex Woolf, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews
Paper 508-bThoughts on the Roman and Native Discoveries of Pictishness
(Language: English)
James E. Fraser, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
Paper 508-cBreaking down the Wall: Rome and North Britain in the Late Roman Period
(Language: English)
Fraser Hunter, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Abstract

Discussions of the Empire and its neighbours, of migrations and internal development have tended to focus on the Rhine and Danube limes.
This session looks instead at Britain to bring out some of the major themes examined in this strand of sessions: the interaction between Rome and the people beyond the frontiers and the close cultural integration of the two regions. This shows how the changes within the Empire produced change beyond the frontier depending on the extent of links between the regions. It will also look at how the 'barbarians' even when at home tried very hard to become Roman. This was not a world of purely violent antagonism and confrontation.