The transition to late antiquity : on the Danube and beyond

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The transition to late antiquity / A.G. Poulter

The transition to late antiquity on the Lower Danube: the city, a fort, and the countryside / A.G. Poulter

Part 1: Historical context

The lower Danube region under pressure: From Valens to Heraclius / J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz

The late Roman army and the defence of the Balkans / M. Whitby

Goths in the Roman Balkans, c. 350-500 / P. Heather

Part 2: The city of Nicopolis

The two Anglo-Bulgarian research programmes and the results of the Bulgarian excavations / L. Slokoska

The late Roman agora and the state of civic organization / P. Vladkova

The environmental archaeology research programme at Nicopolis: Methodology and results / M. Beech

Part 3: Dichin (Bulgaria): Interpreting the ceramic evidence in its wider context / V.G. Swan

Seeds of destruction: Conflagration in the grain stores of Dichin / P. Grinter

A short report on the preliminary results from the study of the mammal and bird bone assemblages from Dichin / C. Johnstone

Colin circulation in the Balkans in late antiquity / P. Guest

Part 4: The city in context

The transformation of cities in late antiquity within the provinces of Macedonia and Epirus / J.-P. Sodini

Caricin grade and the changes in the nature of urbanism in the central Balkans in the sixth century / B. Bavant

Nicopolis ad Istrum: Backward and Balkan? / M. Whittow

Ephesus in the late Roman and early Byzantine period: Changes in its urban character from the third to seventh century AD / S. Ladstatter and A. Pulz

Amida and Tropaeum Traiani: A comparison of late antique fortress cities on the lower Danube and Mesopotamia / J. Crow

Part 5: The fort in context

The fort of Iatrus in Moesia Secunda: Observations on the late Roman defensive system on the lower Danube (fourth-sixth centuries AD) / G. von Bulow

The fortresses of Thrace and Dacia in the early Byzantine period / V. Dinchev

From the Danube to the Po: The defence of Pannonia and Italy in the fourth and fifth centuries AD / N. Christie

Part 6: The countryside in context

Extensive field survey in north central Bulgaria / I. Tsurov

Site-specific field survey: The methodology / A.G. Poulter

Geophysical survey and rural settlement architecture on the lower Danube at the transition to late antiquity / M.J. Boyd

Another view on late antiquity: sagalassos (SW Anatolia), its suburbium and its countryside in late antiquity / H. Vanhaverbeke, F. Martens, and M. Waelkens

The contribution of regional survey to the late antiquity debate: Greece in its Mediterranean context / J. Bintliff