One of the most significant transformations of the Roman world in Late Antiquity was the integration of barbarian peoples into the social, cultural, religious, and political milien of the Mediterranean world. The nature of these transformations was considered at the sixth biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference, at the University of Illonis at Urbana-Champaign in March of 2005, and this volume presents an updated selectin of the papers given on the occasion, complemented with a few others.
