The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Roman Germany

Simon James is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester. After a decade at the British Museum as an archaeological illustrator and then as an educator, he returned to the University sector via a Leverhulme Fellowship at Durham. He joined the University of Leicester in January 2000, becoming professor in 2012. His research mainly relates to ancient conflict, especially in the Roman world and contemporary societies in Europe and the Middle East.Stefan Krmnicek is Junior Professor of Ancient Numismatics at the Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen. His research interests cover a wide range of topics, including coin iconography, economic and social history, and archaeometry, with current research focuses on the study of money and coinage at the interface between archaeology, Roman and Iron Age numismatics, anthropology, and sociology.

...this excellent book fills a long-underserved need for up-to-date information on, and interpretation of, the Romans' activities in ancient Germany. Regardless of language, it is a valuable contribution to the subject.

• 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 Kortüm: 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: Günther 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 Höpken: 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 Reddé: 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