ABSTRACT
Guy Halsall teaches late antique and early medieval history and archaeology at the University of York. His work has tended to use detailed artifactual evidence to respond to large-scale historical problems. This article originally appeared as a review article treating four recent books (see n. 2 below) on Rome and the barbarians. The reader may wish to pay particular attention to two aspects of this study. First, there is Halsall’s trenchant reasoning in assessing the work of other scholars and second there is his masterful command of archaeological evidence.
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