The article intervenes in the historiographical debate concerning the violent arrival of barbarian peoples in north-eastern Hispania. Reacting against the historiographical tendency that claims that the documented destructions are the product of an internal political and social crisis of the Roman Empire itself, the article defends the substantive weight that the Frankish and Germanic incursions had in the change of regional lifestyles – without disregarding the condition of possibility opened by the internal crisis -. Based on a study of documentary, numismatic, and archaeological sources, the text asserts that the Frankish invasion of the Levantine coastline and the razzias The evidence is sufficiently supported by the evidence found, which places them as the fundamental cause of a turning point in Hispano-Roman lifestyles.
Article written by Josep M. Macias, Jordi Morera, Oriol Olesti and Inma Teixell. [Escrito en catalán]