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Rosalba Arcuri, « Forme di dipendenza nelle società barbariche dell’Occidente tardoantico : incidenza economica e strutture sociali », Actes du Groupe de Recherches sur l’Esclavage depuis l’Antiquité, ID : 10670/1.od2clr
"Forms of Dependence in the Barbarian Societies of the Western Europe in Late Antiquity : Economic impact and Social structures". The vast and varied world that the Romans called indifferently barbaricum was structured in traditional societies, that modern sociology calls “ complex tribal organizations”, or federations of tribes, in which it is now difficult to recognize the cultural homogeneity that was erroneously supposed in the past. Within this tribal universe there existed the same kinds of social stratifications among free men as well as forms of dependence, such as slavery, attested by the late ancient and early medieval corpora known as Leges barbarorum. In the context of these forms of dependence this paper proposes to verify cultural processes that originated after the osmotic encounter and conflict between Barbarian “ peoples” and the romanitas, together with socio-economic effects that can traced among slaves and free men of lower social status within the institutions of the tribal community.