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 […]
This essay takes a broad approach to the phenomenon of wine production in the Roman Layetania of the High Empire, approaching the problem by taking into account the interweaving of all its constituent elements. Wine production in the region is analysed in terms of its social and historical framework: forms of land ownership, social landscape, […]
The text analyses the figure of the freedman Lucius Licinius Secundus, dependent on the Roman consul Lucius Licinius Sura, as well as the close relations he maintained with other freedmen and slaves of the Ager Barcinonensis. His role, like that of most of these freedmen, can be linked to the production of Layetan wine and […]
This text, the product of research carried out in the province of Barcelona – in the landscape of Laietània– deals with the study of the historical Roman landscape from an approach to the villae and the different rural settlements. By studying the dialectic relationship between the Roman community and its territory, it delves into the […]