2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Political process and society in the last stage of the Roman Empire
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22520744
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | ローマ帝国 / ゲルマン人 / 属州 / ゴート族 / テオドシウス1世 / ユリアヌス帝 / フランク族 / アラマンニ族 |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to examine the process of the fall of the Roman Empire in the West from the view point of peripheral provinces. The process of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire has generally been depicted as the fall of Roman Italy or as the history of conflict between the Romans and the Germanic people. And the scholars of the Late Antiquity School have emphasized the aspects of continuation at the end of the Ancient world. On the basis of researches of this study, however, I stress the multilayered and variable structure of ethnic groups' identity in the late Roman world. I also consider the loss of Roman identity at the beginning of 5th century as the fall of the Roman Empire. At the final phase of this project, using the results of researches, I wrote and published a book under the title " the New History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".
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