The Field Armies of the East Roman Empire, 361-630
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 4 July 2024
- ISBN 9781009296939
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages228 pages
- Size 229x152x12 mm
- Weight 312 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 maps 567
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Short description:
A new narrative history of the east Roman field armies based on all the available sources.
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This book presents a new history of the leadership, organization, and disposition of the field armies of the east Roman empire between Julian (361-363) and Herakleios (610-641). To date, scholars studying this topic have privileged a poorly understood document, the Notitia dignitatum, and imposed it on the entire period from 395 to 630. This study, by contrast, gathers all of the available narrative, legal, papyrological, and epigraphic evidence to demonstrate empirically that the Notitia system emerged only in the 440s and that it was already mutating by the late fifth century before being fundamentally reformed during Justinian's wars of reconquest. This realization calls for a new, revised history of the eastern armies. Every facet of military policy must be reassessed, often with broad implications for the period. The volume provides a new military narrative for the period 361-630 and appendices revising the prosopography of high-ranking generals and arguing for a later Notitia.
'This is a well-written and stimulating book that compels readers to reassess what they know or believe about the military administration and defensive capabilities of the east Roman empire. The appendices provide valuable correctives to the prosopography of military personnel.' Philip Rance, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Table of Contents:
1. The high command from Julian to Theodosius I (361-395 AD); 2. The late emergence of the eastern Notitia-system (395-450 AD); 3. The 'classic' phase of the eastern field armies (450-506 AD); 4. The dispersal and decline of the eastern field armies (506-630 AD).
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