Germania Superior

In a handbook-like chronicle, Wolfgang Spickermann presents the history of religion in the province of »Germania Superior« from the time of the conquest up to the spread of Christianity and the decline of provincial religion in the 6th century AD. Based on the topography of the cultplaces discovered, the author describes their development and the arrangement and the furnishings of their rooms in four clearly defined periods of time. His study provides knowledge about the gods worshipped, the operators of the shrines and their relationship to the regional and local Panthea. The author succeeds in doing justice to the regional differences in the Upper German province and at the same time in providing a broad view of the religious conditions in the entire area.