La question agraire liée à l’installation des Goths en Gaule du sud et l’approche marxiste de la transition Antiquité-Moyen Âge
The palimpsest manuscript BnF Latin 12161, commonly known as the “Code of Euric”, contains, in articles 276 and 277, the earliest evidence of the inscription in law of the division of land between the Goths and Romans, which took place between ca. 416 and ca. 418. These laws served as a model for su...
| Published in: | Archéopages |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | French |
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Institut national de recherche archéologique préventive (Inrap)
2019-01-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/archeopages/8705 |
| Summary: | The palimpsest manuscript BnF Latin 12161, commonly known as the “Code of Euric”, contains, in articles 276 and 277, the earliest evidence of the inscription in law of the division of land between the Goths and Romans, which took place between ca. 416 and ca. 418. These laws served as a model for subsequent divisions of the same kind. This aspect was well perceived by Karl Marx, and even more so by Friedrich Engels, who was planning a publication on the ancient Germanic peoples. Within the framework of Marxism‒Leninism, as defined in the 1930s, Soviet historians returned to this subject and, in particular, to the economic and social aspect of partition. This research, together with that of some Western researchers, attests to a real, permanent and large-scale sharing of the land, which was the ultimate goal of the Goths in terms of their economic and social development. Thanks to its spectacular development, archaeology is now able to find traces of this major, but often underestimated event, at the heart of the Gallo-Roman domain. |
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| ISSN: | 1622-8545 2269-9872 |