¿Otro mito historiográfico? La crisis del siglo III y sus términos en el nuevo debate

Abstract

The crisis of the third century is a historical problem overall, on which historians have treated during decades, and even centuries. However the traditional historical problem (on army, money, and slaves, in this time) has been replaced by a new debate: are there new sources for information? Is there here a new historiographical myth? Was there really a crisis? If so, what is to name the different situations of crisis? For answering these enquiries is necessary the knowledge of ancient sources, literary and archaeological, but the analysis of several theories about it is useful also. Besides, in the new debate historians cannot do without other data, specially those referred to the archaeological results, which have changed radically the historical discourse on the crisis in the last decades. In this sense, one could speak of a really paradigm change between historians with collaboration of other research lines. In short, up-dated information about the elements and reasons of this debate will be found here.