University of Lorraine
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Asked 7 August 2014
Can anybody suggest any book/monograph about the Roman Empire in Germany between 1AD and 3AD?
I am working with mural paintings from Roman epoch in Germany. I want to know more about the history, how Romans arrive in Germany, how they move in Germany, etc., but I don't know German, so it is being a little hard to find these information. I can read in English, Portuguese, Italian or Spanish.
Thanks!
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my pleasure, prego :-)
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Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie
Not new, but still one of my favorite books:
Edith Mary Wightman, Gallia belgica (Berkely and Los Angeles, 1985).
Complete text:
You could also try:
Maureen Carrol, Romans, Celts & Germans: The German Provinces of Rome (Stroud & Charleston (SC): Tempus; 2001).
Regards,
Stefan
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Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie
No book, but this link provides also useful information about the history of the Germanic provinces:
It is the product of the project: "Transformation. The Emergence of a Common Culture in the Northern Provinces of the Roman Empire from Britain to the Black Sea up to 212 A.D.", which was supported between July 2004 and June 2007 by the European Commission.
Regards,
Stefan
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Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology
Thank you, Stefan!
Best regards,
Rafaela
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University of Alberta
Even older, but should be helpful: Colin Wells, The German Policy of Augustus (1972).
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Ruhr University Bochum
Dear Rafaela, a good start is to read the entries on "Germania" in the Oxford Classical Dictionary and the Encyclopedia Britannica. Furthermore, I think you cannot do without reading Caesar's "De bello gallico" and Tacitus' "Germania".
Further recommendations:
Todd, Malcolm (1992). The early Germans.
Herwig, Wolfram (1997). The Roman empire and its Germanic peoples.
Miles, Richard (Ed.). (1999). Constructing identities in late antiquity.
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University of Vienna
Hallo Rafaela, maybe "Frontiers of the Roman Empire" by Hugh Elton (London 1996) would be helpful. The book contains a chapter about the consolidation of the Rhine frontier.
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Province of Zeeland
Hello Rafaela, perhaps the following (albeit Dutch) case-study can be interesting to take a look at as well: N. Roymans, Ethnic Identity and Imperial Power : The Batavians in the Early Roman Empire (Amsterdam 2004).
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Pueblo of Isleta
Hello Rafaela,
You already have received a number of useful suggestions, to which I’d like to add a couple more:
Ian Haynes, Blood of the Provinces: The Roman Auxilia and the Making of Provincial Society from Augustus to the Severans (Oxford 2013).
and
María Paz García-Bellido, Las legiones hispánicas en Germania: moneda y ejército (Madrid 2004, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Ciéntificas). This is quite a specialized study, but very illuminating for its tight focus on the specific impact the presence of military units from one provincial area on another.
There is also a very readable book on the transformation of Gaul that touches on the German provinces in the time period you are interested in: Becoming Roman, the origins of provincial civilization in Gaul, by Greg Woolf (Cambridge 1998).
Hope this helps, Michael
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Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology
Hello Thomas and Michael,
Thank you!!
Cheers, Rafaela
Hi Rafaela
This is an old article, but it can be useful:
O. Brogan 1936; Trade between the Roman Empire and the Free Germans, "Journal of Roman Studies" 26(2): 195-222.
Best Regards
Maciej Wawrzczak
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University of Lorraine
recent, R. Wolters : among others his Die Römer in Germanien (Beck, München, 2001) but he has written others.
University of Lorraine
Sorry, I had not seen German was not the right language : hmm what about the Cambridge Ancient History ? It is very complete.
Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology
Thanks Yasmina! Currently I am not working anymore with Roman paintings, but I will keep these both books in my list, they may be helpful in the future! Cheers!
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