Alaric among natives and strangers: the way to the sack of Rome
| Autor: | Dmitriy Konkov |
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| Jazyk: | ruština |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Известия Томского политехнического университета: Инжиниринг георесурсов, Vol 325, Iss 6 (2019) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2500-1019 2413-1830 |
| Popis: | The relevance of the discussed issue is caused by the need to reiterate Roman-Barbarian relations' current interpretation. The nowadays conceptions of sociology, social and historical anthropology give us the opportunity for the profound understanding of ideal and material cultural impacts in the frame of the late Roman Empire. The main aim of the study is to reconstruct the causes of Alaric's decision to plunder Rome in 410 AD in the context of intercultural Roman-Barbarian interactions by means of historical and anthropological interpretation and historiographical comparative analysis. The methods used in the study: general science methods of analysis, synthesis and historicism, method of historical narrative, historical genetic method, historical typological method, historical source criticism, comparative historiographical analysis. The results. The author found out the causes of Alaric's decision to plunder Rome in 410 AD. There are two groups of the causes in relation to Alaric's person. The first group consists of the personal aims and priorities: 1) the intention of Alaric to keep leader's status among the Barbarians and to provide military luck and loot for that purpose, 2) the opposite but akin intention of Alaric to enter in Roman military system by the assignment to the office of magister militum, 3) Alaric's personal strategy of pressing on the Roman imperial and local officials by the combination of treaties and blackmails. The second group consists of the factors unrelated to Alaric's person: 1) the bias of the emperor Honorius, who had rejected any proposals of treaty between the Empire and Alaric, 2) the widespread antibarbarian common opinion by the Empire's citizens put Alaric in an outcast's position; 3) Alaric had had to find a foodstuff for the army. |
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