Dediticii in the Late Roman Empire
This paper is an attempt to understand the meaning of a term used in Roman sources to describe certain groups of barbarian settlers and identify the principal characteristics of the dediticii concept. This analysis can help to shed light on some problems in the Later Roman Empire's relations with various barbarians tribes in IV – early V Centuries A.D.. The paper proposes a successive analysis of late ancient narrative tradition texts and law documents which contain the term tributarii.