TY - BOOK AU - Wells,Peter S. TI - The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe SN - 9781400843466 AV - DG59.E8 U1 - 936 21 PY - 2021///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Germanic peoples KW - Europe KW - Influence KW - Roman provinces KW - Romans KW - HISTORY / Ancient / Rome KW - bisacsh KW - Alamanni KW - Anreppen KW - Auerberg KW - Augustus (Octavian) KW - Bad Cannstatt KW - Batavians KW - Berching-Pollanten KW - Brandopferplätze KW - Burgundians KW - Carnuntum KW - Cherusci KW - Clemency KW - Dangstetten KW - Drusus KW - Epona KW - Eschweiler-Laurenzberg KW - Friedman, Jonathan KW - Gallic War KW - Goeblingen-Nospelt KW - Gournay-sur-Aronde KW - Gundestrup KW - Haarhausen KW - Hallstatt KW - Harsefeld KW - Hercules Magusenus KW - Herodotus KW - Heuneburg KW - Hörgertshausen KW - Jakuszowice KW - Jastorf style KW - Kelheim KW - Kronwinkl KW - Langobards KW - Marcomannic Wars KW - Nehalennia KW - Norican Ware KW - Oberaden KW - Oberammergau (Döttenbichl) KW - analogy in interpretation KW - architecture, domestic KW - auxiliary troops KW - columns, of Trajan KW - deities KW - demography KW - empires KW - fibulae KW - ideology, Roman KW - inscriptions KW - legionary troops KW - postcolonial studies N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures and Tables --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; CHAPTER 1 Natives and Romans --; CHAPTER 2 Europe before the Roman Conquests --; CHAPTER 3 Iron Age Urbanization --; CHAPTER 4 The Roman Conquests --; CHAPTER 5 Identities and Perceptions --; CHAPTER 6 Development of the Frontier Zone --; CHAPTER 7 Persistence of Tradition --; CHAPTER 8 Town, Country, and Change --; CHAPTER 9 Transformation into New Societies --; CHAPTER 10 Impact across the Frontier --; CHAPTER 11 Conclusion --; Glossary --; Greek and Roman Authors --; Bibliographic Essay --; Bibliography of Works Cited --; Index; restricted access N2 - The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture. The Celts and Germans inhabiting temperate Europe before the arrival of the Romans left no written record of their lives and were often dismissed as "barbarians" by the Romans who conquered them. Accounts by Julius Caesar and a handful of other Roman and Greek writers would lead us to think that prior to contact with the Romans, European natives had much simpler political systems, smaller settlements, no evolving social identities, and that they practiced human sacrifice. A more accurate, sophisticated picture of the indigenous people emerges, however, from the archaeological remains of the Iron Age. Here Peter Wells brings together information that has belonged to the realm of specialists and enables the general reader to share in the excitement of rediscovering a "lost people." In so doing, he is the first to marshal material evidence in a broad-scale examination of the response by the Celts and Germans to the Roman presence in their lands.The recent discovery of large pre-Roman settlements throughout central and western Europe has only begun to show just how complex native European societies were before the conquest. Remnants of walls, bone fragments, pottery, jewelry, and coins tell much about such activities as farming, trade, and religious ritual in their communities; objects found at gravesites shed light on the richly varied lives of individuals. Wells explains that the presence--or absence--of Roman influence among these artifacts reveals a range of attitudes toward Rome at particular times, from enthusiastic acceptance among urban elites to creative resistance among rural inhabitants. In fascinating detail, Wells shows that these societies did grow more cosmopolitan under Roman occupation, but that the people were much more than passive beneficiaries; in many cases they helped determine the outcomes of Roman military and political initiatives. This book is at once a provocative, alternative reading of Roman history and a catalyst for overturning long-standing assumptions about nonliterate and indigenous societies UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843466?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400843466 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400843466.jpg ER -