New Perspectives on the Atlantic Facade of the Roman World

The counterpointing of Mediterranean and Atlantic histories is a natural corollary of the particular trajectory of European power in the world from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and it has gained authority and fame from the contribution of Fernand Braudel to the theory and practice of both Mediterranean history and its supplanting by a new Atlantic order.

This paper will offer a new analysis of Irish social communities between the first and fifth centuries CE (concentrating primarily on the fourth and fifth), situating the island within the material and interpretative parameters of the Roman Atlantic West.

This paper examines the recursive relationship between geography, commerce, wealth, and upward social mobility in southwestern Iberia, in the Roman imperial provinces of Baetica and Lusitania.

This paper argues that the Roman period saw a transformation of the maritime infrastructure of Atlantic Europe, with consequences that extended well beyond the end of the political unification of the region.