Colloque – James Dodd (org.), Late Roman Fortifications: New Methods and Approaches

Boundaries are a strong thread in the defence of Roman Gaul and their strengthening in Late Antiquity marks a shift from offensive to defensive in the social, economic, and military-political makeup of the frontier zone. It has been 30 years since Raymond Brulet’s synthesis work, La Gaule septentrionale au Bas-Empire and several years since the last major conference on the topic. Building on the decades of research into Late Roman defence at Université Catholique de Louvain going back to the...