| Description |
1 online resource (524 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of figures; List of plates; Preface and acknowledgements; List of emperors; Outline of significant events; CHAPTER I SOURCES; CHAPTER II CRISIS AND TRANSITION; CHAPTER III BARBARIANS AND BUREAUCRATS: THE ARMY FROM CONSTANTINE TO JUSTINIAN; CHAPTER IV RECRUITMENT; CHAPTER V CONDITIONS OF SERVICE; CHAPTER VI EQUIPMENT; CHAPTER VII FORTIFICATIONS; CHAPTER VIII SIEGE WARFARE; CHAPTER IX THE MORALE OF THE LATE ROMAN ARMY; CHAPTER X THE END OF THE ARMY; Maps I-IV the Empire from the mid second century to the fifth century ad; Glossary |
| Summary |
Using a full range of original literary sources, modern Continental scholarship, and current archaeological research, Pat Southern and Karen R. Dixon provide a stimulating overview of the historical period, the critical changes in the army, and the way these changes affected the morale of the soldiers |
| Bibliography |
BibliographyIndex |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Military art and science -- History -- To 500.
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Armed Forces
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Antiquities
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Armies
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Military art and science
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Militär
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- Military antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115175
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Rome -- Army.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115090
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Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115160
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Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018484
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| Subject |
Byzantine Empire
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Rome (Empire)
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Römisches Reich
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Southern, Pat
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| ISBN |
9781134724222 |
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1134724225 |
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