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Cambridge University Press, Aug 27, 1993 - History - 213 pages
During late antiquity the Roman empire faced serious threats from the peoples to the east and to the north. This book is concerned with the role played by information and intelligence in the empire's relations with these peoples, how well-informed about them the empire was, and how such information was acquired. It deals with an important facet of late Roman history which has not previously received systematic treatment, and does so in a wide-ranging manner which relates the military/diplomatic history to its broader social/cultural and economic context.
A. D. Lee is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Nottingham, and the author of "Information and Frontiers: Late Roman Foreign Relations "(1993), and "Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook" (2000).
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Information and Frontiers: Roman Foreign Relations in Late Antiquity
