Organisation and Life in the Late Roman Military: A Bibliographic Essay

2013 ◽  
pp. 209-238
Keyword(s):  
Roman Military ◽  
Late Roman

LATE ROMAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT CULTURE

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 461-492
Author(s):  
J. C. N. Coulston
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Military Equipment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Equipment Development ◽  
New Form ◽  
Roman Military ◽  
Cultural Components ◽  
Late Roman

The paper explores the cultural components of Late Roman military equipment through the examination of specific categories: waist belts, helmets, shields and weaponry. Hellenistic, Roman, Iron Age European, Mesopotamian- Iranian and Asiatic steppe nomad elements all played a part. The conclusion is that the whole history of Roman military equipment involved cultural inclusivity, and specifically that Late Roman equipment development was not some new form of ‘degeneration’ or ‘barbarisation’, but a positive acculturation.

RECREATING THE LATE ROMAN ARMY

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 523-567
Author(s):  
John Conyard
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Roman Army ◽  
Standard Work ◽  
Military Equipment ◽  
Roman Military ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Late Roman

This paper attempts to give some insight into the role that Roman military reconstruction archaeology can play in the understanding of Roman military equipment from Late Antiquity. It can only provide a brief introduction to some of the equipment of the Late Roman army though, and Bishop and Coulston’s Roman Military Equipment, first published in 1993 (2nd ed., 2006), must remain the standard work.1 This contribution will chiefly aim to examine how items of equipment were made, and more importantly, to consider how they were used.

EL-LEJJŪN: LOGISTICS AND LOCALISATION ON ROME’S EASTERN FRONTIER IN THE 6TH C. A.D.

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 893-924
Author(s):  
Conor Whately
Keyword(s):  
Trade Networks ◽  
Military Logistics ◽  
Military Presence ◽  
Roman Military ◽  
Late Roman

This paper re-evaluates some of the conclusions reached by the contributors to the published final excavation report for the fortress of el-Lejjun in Jordan, particularly regarding its occupation in the first half of the 6th c. A.D. I argue that there was still a significant military presence, likely composed of limitanei, during that period, and that much of their food was sourced locally. This is in keeping with what we know about the provisioning of Roman frontier fortresses in other parts of the empire, and trends in the trade networks of the 6th c. East in general. Furthermore, the essay highlights the value that detailed archaeological reports have for elucidating Late Roman military logistics.

New evidence for a Roman fort and vicus at Mizda (Tripolitania)

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 33-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Schimmer
Keyword(s):  
Field Survey ◽  
Roman Military ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The Town ◽  
Late Roman

AbstractThe existence of a Roman military fort at the town of Mizda, about 150 km south of Tripoli, has long been assumed, in spite of scarce archaeological indications. A field survey, conducted recently in the area around the old town of Mizda, yielded an assemblage of pottery dating to the mid and late Roman periods. The pottery provides the first unequivocal evidence for a Roman settlement around (and beneath) the old town, most probably in the form of a fort and vicus.

Roman Game Boards from Abu Sha’ar (Red Sea Coast, Egypt)

Antiquity ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 78 (301) ◽  
pp. 602-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynda Mulvin ◽  
Steven E. Sidebotham
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Board Games ◽  
Hot Days ◽  
Red Sea Coast ◽  
Roman Military ◽  
Sea Coast ◽  
Late Roman

The discovery of twenty game boards – including some in a dedicated den or gaming room – in the late Roman fort at Abu Sha’ar, on the Red Sea coast of Egypt, conjures up images of daily life at a well established, but remote Roman military station. Here, during the long hot days and cool nights, soldiers no doubt played board games and gambled incessantly. This paper describes the boards, the likely games played on them and the areas of the fort where they were played.

Droit militaire romain tardif dans le code de Bavière

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Esders
Keyword(s):  
Border Region ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
Eastern Border ◽  
Roman Military ◽  
Military Law ◽  
Military Discipline ◽  
Late Roman

This paper investigates the influence of late Roman military law on the Lex Baiuvariorum – a text, which served as the basis for the Merovingian kings’ organization of the Frankish kingdom’s eastern border-region as a ducatus or duchy. Particular considerations concerning the historical background of the Bavarian duchy’s formation will be addressed, after which provisions for the protection of the Bavarian dux or duke, largely as relates to treason and military discipline, will be investigated. By comparing sources for the Roman crimen laesae maiestatis and other legal texts of Roman military writers, it will be demonstrated that the provisions of the Bavarian law-code clearly bear the influence of Roman military law.

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