oa De infrastructuur in het gebied van de Neder-Germaanse Limes

In this contribution we first explain what is referred to as infrastructure in ancient times and how ancient authors looked at this phenomenon. We also describe the sources which we have to reconstruct the infrastructural networks in the period before and during the Roman expansion in this part of Northwestern Europe. The major part of this article addresses the questions of where and when the various forms of infrastructure were built, and what they were used for in the area of the Lower Germanic Limes. We will conclude our contribution with an outline of future research on infrastructural aspects of the limes.