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“Decline and fall?” Social and cultural dynamics in the Low Countries in the Late Roman empire (AD 270-450).

Code
3GA04612
Duration
01 April 2012 → 31 March 2018
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Archaeology
    • Theory and methodology of archaeology
    • Other history and archaeology
Keywords
archaeology material culture late Roman German English French Dutch Comparative Geographic and map based Iconography and analysis of images Quantitative Field research Late Antiquity Archaeometrical research Material culture studies Belgium Western Europe
 
Project description

Since Gibbon’s Decline and fall of the Roman Empire (1776), the late Roman period is known as a period of decline. In recent decades, this view is debated. Our researchaims at studying this era from a modern vision upon material culture. The immiagrtions which where put negatively from a Roman point of view, will de considered from an angle of new social and culturele formations.