A Collapsing Migratory Regime? The Map of the Migration Period and Its Iconology at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

Tillmann Lohse

Yayın yılı:

2018

Yayıncı:

De Gruyter

For more than two centuries the "Barbarian" migrations into the Roman Empire that took place during the 4 th -6 th century CE have been remembered all over Europe in the form of eye-catching maps. Depending on the political climate, the "tribal arrows" that aim to indicate both the ethnicity and routes of late antique and early medieval immigrants have been arranged in very different iconological settings corresponding to very different political interpretations of the historic events. This essay argues that recently developed maps which present the Vlkerwanderung as the collapse of a restrictive migratory regime are based on rather poor sources. Instead, other feasible strategies of depiction are discussed that might also satisfy the current desire for historical guidance (especially within the "Schengen" states), but without ignoring the current state of research.

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