Abstract

A.G. Poulter: The collapse of a Roman economy and the militarization of the countryside: the case for dramatic change on the DanubeA.G. Poulter: The Transition to Late Antiquity on the lower Danube: the city, a fort and the countrysideTHE HISTORICAL CONTEXTJ.H.W.G Liebeschuetz: The Lower Danube region under pressure: from Valens to HeracliusM. Whitby: The Late Roman army and the defence of the BalkansP. Heather: Goths in the Roman Balkans, c. 350-500THE CITY OF NICOPOLISL. Slokoska: The two Anglo-Bulgaria research programmes and the results of the Bulgarian excavationsP. Vladkova & Veliko Turnovo: The Late Roman Agora and the state of civic organizationM. Beech: The environmental archaeology research programme at Nicopolis ad Istrum: methodology and resultsTHE FORT AT DICHINV. Swan: Dichin : interpreting the ceramic evidence in its wider contextP. Grinter: Seeds of destruction: conflagration in the grain stores of DichinC. Johnstine: The preliminary results from the study of the mammal and bird bone assemblages from DicinP. Guest: Coin circulation in the Balkans in Late AntiquityTHE CITY IN CONTEXTJ.P. Sodini: The transformation of cities in Late Antiquity within the provinces of Macedonia and EpirusB. Bavant: Tsarichin Grad and the changes in the nature of urbanism in the central Balkans in the 6th centuryM. Whittow: Nicopolis ad Istrum: backward and Balkan?S. Ladstätter and A. Pülz: Ephesos in the late Roman and early Byzantine period; changes in its urban character from the 3rd to 7th century ADJ. Crow: Amida and Tropaeum Treaiani: a comparison of late antique fortress cities on the Lower Danube and MesopotamiaTHE FORT IN CONTEXTG. v. Bülow: The fort of Istrus in Moesia Secunda: observations on the late Roman defensive system on the lower Danube V. Dinchev: The fortifications in the dioceses of Thrace and Dacia during the early Byzantine periodN. Christie: From the Danube to the Po: the defence of Pannonia and Italy in the fourth and fifth centuries ADTHE COUNTRYSIDE IN CONTEXTI. Tsurov & Veliko Turnovo: Extensive field survey in north, central BulgariaA.G. Poulter: Site-specific field survey: the methodologyM. J. Boyd: Geophysical survey and rural settlement on the lower Danube at the transition to Late AntiquityH. Vanhaverbeke, F. Martens & M. Waelkens: Another view on Late Antiquity: Sagalassos, its suburbium and its countryside in Late AntiquityJ. Bintliff: The contribution of regional survey to the Late Antiquity debate: Greece in its Mediterranean context.