Barbarian Enclaves in the Northern Roman Empire

摘要

Besides the barbarians admitted to the army, hundreds of thousands were received — men, women, and children — into the Roman empire, to be settled in reservations. The practise is of significance from the late second century on. Archaeology reveals signs of perhaps ten tribes represented in France, Germany, and the Low Countries. What is interesting about them is the increasing tenacity with which they retained their own traditions of pottery, jewelry, and burial, against the slowly decreasing power of Romanization.