It was a strong success, and inspired the recent Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference , held in Kansas. It produced a numberof important conclusions. The discussion of the barbarian threat suggeststhat it had little coherence and that, when compared with the Roman forces,barbarian military capacities were low and did not improve during this period. The effectiveness of the Roman army was high and remained so, especiallyon the battlefield, though it suffered from some weakness in strategy. Easternand western military practices appear not to have diverged during the fifthcentury and there appears to have been a strong continuity, in both practiceand theory, between the armies of the fourth and sixth centuries.
Attention is paid to the zones and processes on both sides of the border.
My current research is focusing on Cilicia and Isauria in eastern Asia Minor in the late Roman period.