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The barbarians speak : how the conquered peoples shaped Roman Europe /
"The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture. The Celts and Germans inhabiting temperate Europe before the arrival of the Romans left no written record...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
[2001]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture. The Celts and Germans inhabiting temperate Europe before the arrival of the Romans left no written record of their lives and were often dismissed as "barbarians" by the Romans who conquered them. A more accurate, sophisticated picture of the indigenous people emerges, however, from the archaeological remains of the Iron Age. Here Peter Wells brings together information that has belonged to the realm of specialists and enables the general reader to share in the excitement of rediscovering a "lost people." In so doing, he is the first to marshal material evidence in a broad-scale examination of the response by the Celts and Germans to the Roman presence in their lands."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 335 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-329) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0691089787 9780691089782 0691058717 9780691058719 9781400843466 1400843464 |