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Supplying the Roman Empire (LIMES XXV volume 4)

Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 4

Author: Edited by Harry van Enckevort, Mark Driessen, Erik Graafstal, Tom Hazenberg, Tatiana Ivleva and Carol van Driel-Murray
Date: 01 September 2024
Links: Sidestone Press (free download)

Frontiers are zones, or lines, of contact and coercion, of exchange and exclusion. As such they often express some of the most typical elements of the socio-political spaces that are defined by them. Spanning some 6,000 km along rivers, mountain ranges, artificial barriers and fringes of semi-desert, the frontiers of the Roman empire offer a wide variety of avenues and topics for a very diverse community of scholars. They are the central subject of the International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies (or just Limes Congress after the Latin word for ‘border’), organised every three years since 1949. This four-volume publication contains with 180+ papers most of the contributions presented at the 25^th edition which was hosted by the municipality of Nijmegen – and organised by Mark Driessen, Harry van Enckevort, Erik Graafstal, Tom Hazenberg, Tatiana Ivleva and Carol Van Driel-Murray – in August 2022.

These LIMES XXV’s congress proceedings are arranged around the original sessions, in order to form coherent thematical collections that make the vast output more accessible to generalists and specialists alike.

The last volume – “Supplying the Roman Empire” – deals with various aspects of the supply and provisioning of the Roman empire, and the role of the Roman armies housed on its fringes herein. The result is a wide-ranging collection of papers dealing with topics such as: finds of organic material; riverine and maritime supply and security; militarily controlled mining; building material procurement and processing; military material culture, and agro-political schemes and water management.

The publications are all open access and for free download available. See for more information the website of the publisher: Sidestone Press.