Roman imperial period (chronology)

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The Roman imperial period is the expansion of political and cultural influence of the

Western Empire, over which the Romans' political and military control was lost in the course of the 5th-century fall of the Western Roman Empire
.

Periodization

In historiography, the "imperial period" is by convention taken to last from 27 BCE to CE 284. In archaeology, on the other hand, the term is usually taken to cover the period of c. CE 1 to 375 (the latter being a conventional date for the onset of the Migration Period). This follows Hans Jürgen Eggers [de] (1955), who used a periodization of "early imperial period" (German: frühkaiserzeitlich) B1 to B2 and "late imperial period" (German: spätkaiserzeitlich) C1 to C3, reflecting the history of Roman pottery imports to Magna Germania and other parts of Barbaricum (Eggers A corresponds to La Tène D). In the chronology of Eggers (1955):[1]

La Tène period[2] stage D C B A
absolute date 450–380 BCE 380–250 BCE 250–150 BCE 150–15 BCE
Roman Empire (Barbaricum) [de] period
(according to Eggers)
stage A B1 B2 C1 C2 C3
absolute date 100–1 BCE 1–30 CE 30–150 CE 150–200 CE 200–300 CE 300–375 CE
Migration period[3]
(according to Eggers)
stage D
absolute date 375–568 CE

The term "Roman imperial period" has been used as opposed to "late antiquity", i.e. implying the "early" and "middle" imperial period of the late 1st century BC to the 3rd century CE. The "Roman imperial period" in this sense would end with the reforms under Diocletian and the beginning of the

Christianization of the Roman Empire. The period is roughly equivalent in span to the "Principate", the early period of Roman imperial rule from Augustus to Diocletian (r. 284–305), succeeded by the "Dominate
".

See also

References

  1. ^ Eggers, Hans Jürgen [in German] (1955). "zur absoluten Chronologie der römischen Kaiserzeit im Freien Germanien" [To the absolute chronology of the Roman Empire in free Germania]. Jahrbuch des römisch-germanischen Zentralmuseums II [Yearbook of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum II] (in German). Mainz. pp. 192–244.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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