El moderno debate sobre la romanización

Abstract

The traditional concept of Romanization, vague but nevertheless useful, has been dealt with in recent decades in the discussion of specific questions, ultimately leading to a radical revision of the basic postulates: thus, it has been claimed that Romanization did not exist, or that nobody knows what it was. A North European, especially English trend, brings into question Roman civilization (depredatory of others on the same level). As opposed to this, the research works on Roman Hispania and particularly on Callaecia may be adduced: the original identity of the indigenous peoples must be considered side by side their formation throughout History: the Ethnogenesis, of which Romanization represents a crucial event which contributed to the European peoples much more than the Barbarian cultures. There is in the background an old conflict between Northern and Southern Europe.