Nfifth-century gaul a crisis of identity pdf files

The affair of hilary of arles 445 and galloroman identity in the fifth century m. Wes 23 gaul and the holy land in the early fifth century 264 e. Gaul and the holy land in the early fifth century e. We possess not just one but several literary accounts of the crisis, along with chronicles, poetry, and imperial laws that all help to illuminate its course, but the sequence of events bristles. New research on fifthcentury gaul john drinkwater and hugh elton edd. Sidonius is the single most important surviving author from fifthcentury gaul according to eric goldberg. Gaius sollius modestus apollinaris sidonius, better known as saint sidonius apollinaris 5 november of an unknown year, c. My interest in post roman dark age britain lead me to this definitely a bridge too far. This is extremely dry and academic collection of papers on specialist aspects of the transition of fifthcentury gaul from a roman province to a collection of barbarian kingdoms.

The unusually wide range of topics dealt with allows the. They seek to describe and explain how galloromans of all orders of society reacted to barbarian invasion and the growing debilitation of the western imperial government. Pdf the end of the western roman empire in the fifth century. The papers presented in this book take as their subject the military, political and economic changes forced upon the inhabitants of gaul during the fifth century ad.