masterThesis
As estruturas sociais e econômicas do Império Romano do Ocidente e o estabelecimento do reino dos visigodos nas Galliae Aquitania e Narbonensis
Fecha
2011-08-10Registro en:
SARTIN, Gustavo Henrique Soares de Souza. As estruturas sociais e econômicas do Império Romano do Ocidente e o estabelecimento do reino dos visigodos nas Galliae Aquitania e Narbonensis. 2011. 152 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em História e Espaços) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2011.
Autor
Sartin, Gustavo Henrique Soares de Souza
Resumen
In the year 376 of the Common Era, a tribe of Germanic warriors known as Tervingi ,
of Gothic extraction, crossed the Hister (Danube) river due south, entering the Roman
Empire. They fled the Huns, a nomadic group that came plundering their way from the
East. It did not take long for a conflict between the Roman imperial authorities and the
refugees to begin. Peace was reached in 382 and, henceforth, the Tervingi would be
officially foederati (allies) of the Romans, gaining the right to remain an autonomous
tribe inside the borders of the Empire. For the next thirteen years the Tervingi warriors
fought beside the Roman imperial armies in every major conflict. Nevertheless, after the
death of the emperor Theodosius I in 395, their relations deteriorated severely. In
theory, the Tervingi remained Roman allies; in practice, they begun to extort monies
and other assets from the emperors Honorius and Arcadius. The sack of Rome by the
Tervingi king Alaric in 410 was both the culmination and the point of inflection of
this state of affairs. During the 410s the Tervingi warriors would fought again beside the
Roman Imperial armies and be rewarded with a piece of land in the southwestern
portion of the Gallic diocese. Dubbed Visigoths , they would remain trusted Roman
allies throughout the next decades, consolidating their own kingdom in the process. This
dissertation deals not only with the institution of the Visigothic kingdom in the
southwestern portion of the Galliae but also with the social and economic conditions
that hindered the Roman ability to defend their territory by themselves, hence opening
opportunities for foederati like the Tervingi to carve out a piece of it for themselves.