L'espace géopolitique entre le Rhin et l'Elbe du IV au VI siècle apr.J.Chr.

The geographical area between the Rhine and the Elbe rivers was conceived as a part\r\nof the Roman Empire from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius and then to Maximinus\r\nThrax ; during the IVth century it became an outward space, which was out of\r\ncontrol from a political point of view, but already open to the spread of Christianity ;\r\nduring the VIth and the VIIth century this area belonged to the cultural horizon of\r\ncontemporary geographers ; finally in the Vth and in VIth century first Attila the Hun\r\nand then Theoderich the Ostrogoth tried to give it political stability by military or\r\ndiplomatic means : thus they anticipated its annexation to Charlemagne’s Sacred\r\nRoman Empire.