The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE by Robin Fleming

Author:Robin Fleming [Fleming, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: history, Ancient, General, Rome, Europe, Great Britain, Middle Ages (449-1066)
ISBN: 9780812252446
Google: HKMkEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2021-06-11T00:11:33.092523+00:00

A number of questions are worth asking as we try to make sense of the stark material differences between Britain in c. 325 and c. 425. How were British producers affected by the increasingly unstable conditions of the lower Rhine frontier and by the drip, drip, drip of troop withdrawal from the northwest provinces? What happened when the state withdrew from Britain, and the diocese no longer had a place in the empire’s political economy? What happened, in these years, to the myriad networks that had long linked Britain to the rest of the empire? What happened to the large-scale landscapes of production that stood behind so much of late Roman Britain’s durable material culture? How did the 15 percent of the population whose livelihoods were most dependent on the state and the imperial economy fare during these years; and what impact did these changes have on the settlements in which they worked and lived? In what ways were the lives of the 85 percent transformed in this same period? Finally, are migration and ethnicity—so often invoked as motivating factors behind Britain’s material remaking—sufficient explanations for the totality of the material changes we see?

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