DOI article:
Dyczek, Piotr: Introduction
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41276#0007
Introduction
The First International Conference: Novae and the Romans on Rhine, Danube,
Black Sea, and beyond the Frontiers of the Empire was held in Wykno (the
Mazury Region in Poland) from the 18th-24th November 1995. The conference
was organised by the Archaeological Research Centre at the Warsaw University —
Novae. Participants presented 35 lectures devoted to different problems of Roman
culture in provinces and connections with barbarian world. As can be seen, a large
number of contributions was offered. Because of the limited time avaiable, some
of these could only be presented in the form of posters.
Cold weather, typical of the Polish autumn, did not form a barrier in heated
discussions in the conference room and outside it. In common opinion of
participants it was nice and fruitful meeting of the "limes brotherhood."
When we looked at the conference room, we saw how huge force still prevai!s
in the Roman Empire after almost 1500 years. Morę than 50 scientists from
various parts of Eastern and Western Europę met in one place. They came from:
Austria, Belgium, Bułgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Russia, Rumania,
Serbia, Slovenia. We saw that we were citizens of one Europę. Not only in the
political sense, common traditions and history, but also of Europę understood as
an intellectual unity. During the Roman times large part of our modern territories
belonged to the barbarian world. How long was our road, covered by all of us, to
reach together common interests and common solution of scientific problems.
Our conference was the First one of this type which was held in Poland. When
we were thinking about organising it, we were usually met with scepticism.
Malcontents said that there were so many conferences about various limes
problems, there was also the big limes congress. It is true, but with the whole
richness of such meetings, there was no conference where scientists interested in
the limes problems and in problems connected with the barbarian world could
meet half-way. Such a connection of the topics could give us encouraging results.
On the other hand, we thought it to be useful to organise a conference in which
archaeologists would form the majority. They are scientists who practically know
what other people read about in books only. I hope that the meeting, also outside
The First International Conference: Novae and the Romans on Rhine, Danube,
Black Sea, and beyond the Frontiers of the Empire was held in Wykno (the
Mazury Region in Poland) from the 18th-24th November 1995. The conference
was organised by the Archaeological Research Centre at the Warsaw University —
Novae. Participants presented 35 lectures devoted to different problems of Roman
culture in provinces and connections with barbarian world. As can be seen, a large
number of contributions was offered. Because of the limited time avaiable, some
of these could only be presented in the form of posters.
Cold weather, typical of the Polish autumn, did not form a barrier in heated
discussions in the conference room and outside it. In common opinion of
participants it was nice and fruitful meeting of the "limes brotherhood."
When we looked at the conference room, we saw how huge force still prevai!s
in the Roman Empire after almost 1500 years. Morę than 50 scientists from
various parts of Eastern and Western Europę met in one place. They came from:
Austria, Belgium, Bułgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Russia, Rumania,
Serbia, Slovenia. We saw that we were citizens of one Europę. Not only in the
political sense, common traditions and history, but also of Europę understood as
an intellectual unity. During the Roman times large part of our modern territories
belonged to the barbarian world. How long was our road, covered by all of us, to
reach together common interests and common solution of scientific problems.
Our conference was the First one of this type which was held in Poland. When
we were thinking about organising it, we were usually met with scepticism.
Malcontents said that there were so many conferences about various limes
problems, there was also the big limes congress. It is true, but with the whole
richness of such meetings, there was no conference where scientists interested in
the limes problems and in problems connected with the barbarian world could
meet half-way. Such a connection of the topics could give us encouraging results.
On the other hand, we thought it to be useful to organise a conference in which
archaeologists would form the majority. They are scientists who practically know
what other people read about in books only. I hope that the meeting, also outside