Publisher's Synopsis
The author documents the existence of extensive Romanesque structures in certain regions of Alamannia up to the time around 400. With this, she shows that the year 260 cannot be seen as the watershed between a Romanesque classical age and a Germanic early medieval period. The task is rather to research lines of development between these epochs and to analyse the mutual influencing of the various population groupings involved. An examination of archaeological sources for Alamannia establishes various links to the Germanic Elbe region and the Danube area and thus shows the heterogeneity of the population.
