ROMANS CULTURAL IDENTITY

Romans' cultural identity

Romans' cultural identity

This essay summarizes the contacts between Roman culture and identity of the barbarians (and legacy) and discusses the effects of these contacts. (Tom 2005) Roman barbarian knowledge is sufficient barbarians are shown on the map of Ptolemy in the second century, though far from the truth, is still recognizable today.

Ammianus Marcellinus describes a "great conspiracy" in the year 367 in Roman Britain was devastated by the Picts, Irish (Scotti), and the Saxons. To 410 the Romans left Britain, leaving civilians open to attack by Irish invaders. Not surprisingly, therefore, is the most barbaric Roman archaeological features are attributed to this period.

And metal artifacts of value, the assailants also brought slaves from the barbarians. We are fortunate to have the main evidence of this in the form of the writings of St. Patrick. In his confession Patrick tells us how he was "born in captivity in brutal, with a large number of people. (Arno, 1991)

Although Britain is not part of the Roman Empire after 410 AD, Laing tells us how the Roman tradition survived in England until at least the V century and probably in the sixth. “Roman influence was so brutal it feels obscurely, by Britain. The left lasting influence in Britain by the Romans emphasized the writings of St. Patrick, who almost certainly written after the Roman withdrawal from Britain.

Thus, artifacts, and the slaves brought to the barbarians of Britain, even after the Romans had left, they brought Roman culture. Slave, although he might have been a strong influence on the Irish, as suggested in "History of the Church of Ireland" and the leader in a country, obviously, will take most of the slave, following cattle Christian slaves also has access to the most influential people in the land of their captivity. "In fact, ...