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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Roman Army"”.
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Unit sizes in the Late Roman army
It is generally argued that units of the Late Roman Army were substantially smaller than those of the Early Empire. This concept may be largely accurate but a number of problems are involved and generalisations must be made with caution. Even for the Principate unit sizes are not easy to establish, …
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Writers and writing in the Roman Army at Dura-Europos
… maintains that behind the uniform appearance of Roman army writing was a particular, dedicated training. Focussing on the third century Dura-Europos, it uncovers evidence for the thorough schooling given to the clerks of the resident Cohors XX Palmyrenorum enabling them to fulfil their …
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The contribution of warlordism to the disintegration of the western Roman army (c. AD 395-480)
… changing nature of the leadership of the western Roman army in the fifth century through the concept of ‘warlordism’. I carried this out by analyzing those cases of insubordination and military unrest in the officer class of the western Roman army, which can be shown to be linked to the slow …
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The divine horseman in the art of the western Roman Empire
… the mounted god in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Artists in the provinces often turned to Roman, actually Graeco-Roman, models when developing an iconographical form for local deities. The thesis investigates the transformation of Graeco-Roman imagery and looks at the way artists …
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Pooled resources: an experimental investigation of salt production and pottery manufacture within the LIA and Romano-British landscape of Poole Harbour, Dorset.
… paper explores links between Late Iron Age and Romano-British industries, around Poole Harbour, Dorset. Focusing on two major economic activities in the production of salt and a major pottery industry, South East Dorset Black Burnished Ware 1 (SEDBB1). Excavation has revealed evidence for a …
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Standing by the standards: military rank and social status in the Roman west from Augustus to Diocletian
… military and civil society in the time of the Roman Principate. It is about making sense of the tensions experienced by the soldiers and veterans of the Roman army between their lives as milites and as cives. This thesis weaves soldiers and veterans back into the wider social fabric of the …
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From hostage to historian: Josephus, the emperors, and the city of Rome
… fields. Until more recently, however, the Roman context in which Josephus lived as he wrote was rarely explored at length, despite the fact that it is indispensable for our knowledge and understanding of the man and the historian. Recent scholarship has, however, taken up the exploration of …
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Formidable genus armorum: the horse archers of the Roman Imperial Army
… they were recruited into and employed by the Roman army in strength only starting at the reign of Augustus. Units of horse archers were almost exclusively recruited from eastern lands and were employed there as well, not only in war, but also as the border garrisons of Pannonia, Dacia, Africa, …
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Rekonstruktion als epistemisches Medium am Beispiel ‚Römische Soldaten‛
Sowohl in der wissenschaftlichen, als auch in der populärwissenschaftlichen Literatur zu römischen Soldaten und ihrer Ausrüstung treten in Bezug auf die Interpretation der Kontexte der von ihnen benutzten historischen Objekte regelmäßig unterschiedliche methodische Probleme auf, die in der …
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Amiano Marcelino požiūrio į krikščionybę ambivalentiškumas /
Ammianus Marcellinus was a fourth-century Roman historian, best known for his work "Res Gestae" (The Deeds), which covers the history of the Roman Empire from 96 to 378 AD. Born around 330 AD in Antioch (modern-day Turkey), Ammianus was a Greek-speaking Roman of noble birth who served as a soldier …