The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Roman Germany

This Handbook makes the work of modern German and overwhelmingly German-language scholarship on the archaeology of Roman Germany available in English, presenting the latest developments in current research and providing a truly international perspective on the topic. Simon James & Stefan Krmnicek: Introduction; Part I: Prelude, Conquest, and Provincialisation;

1. Occupation and Consolidation; 1 Susanne Sievers: The Lands of Germania in the Later Pre-Roman Iron Age; 2 Reinhard Wolters: Emergence of the Provinces;

2. Creating a Provincial Landscape; 3 Klaus Kortum: Archaeology of Germania Superior: Urban Settlements; 4 Norbert Hanel: Archaeology of Germania Inferior: Urbanization; 5 Thomas Maurer: Roman Rural Landscape Occupation in Present-Day Germany: An Overview; Part II: Core Provinces at the Edge of Empire;

3. Wars and Frontiers; 6 Gunther Moosbauer: Roman Battlefields in Germany: Kalkriese and Harzhorn; 7 Martin Kemkes: The Limes;

4. An Integrated Economy; 8 Susanne Biegert and Markus Helfert: Roman Pottery Research in Germany; 9 David Wigg-Wolf: Coinage and Money in the Roman Rhineland;

5. Constituting Provincial Identity; 10 Constanze Hopken: Religion, Cult, and Burial Customs in the German Provinces; 11 Krešimir Matijević: Writing and Literacy/Illiteracy; 12 Alexandra W. Busch and Henner von Hesberg: Provincial Art; Part III: The Transformation of Power;

6. Crisis of the Third Century; 13 Marcus Reuter: 'Vi barbarorum absumptam': A Military History of Roman Germany during the Third Century AD; 14 Michaela Konrad: Crisis Research in a Civil Context;

7. Germani and Rome; 15 Claus von Carnap-Bornheim: The Germani and the German Provinces of Rome; 16 Michael Meyer: Roman Cultural Influence in Western Germania Magna; 17 Claudia Theune: Transformations in the Roman West: The Case of the Alamanni;

8. After Rome; 18 Hubert Fehr: The Transformation into the Early Middle Ages; 19 Alexander Heising: Reception and History of Research in the Roman Provinces of Germany; Part IV: External Perspectives and Final Thoughts;

9. The Foreign Commentaries; 20 Nico Roymans: The Archaeology of Roman Germany, A Dutch Perspective; 21 Michel Redde: Roman Germania? What Germania?; 22 Ian Haynes: Germanies, Britains, and the Roman World; 23 Philip Kiernan: Roman Germany and Provincial Archaeology, The North American Perspective;

10. Final Word; 24 Thomas Fischer: Concluding Remarks on the Handbook of the Archaeology of Roman Germany