The Fortification of Gaul and the Economy of the Third and Fourth Centuries
Bernard S. Bachrach
An effort is made here to cast light on three areas related converting the open urbs of Bordeaux into a fortress city during later third and early fourth centuries. First, some tentative estimates are offered regarding various aspects expenditure human, animal, material resources that were involved in this project. Secondly, using as guide, even more suggestions overall costs strategic initiatives resulted fortification one hundred cites. Finally, whether type exercise can be value, if perhaps only heuristically, helping us understand economic demographic nature "Crisis Third Century" its aftermath.
Journal of Late Antiquity