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A companion to the Roman army / edited by Paul Erdkamp

Contributor(s): Erdkamp, PaulMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient historyPublisher: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2007Description: xxvi, 574 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 140512153X (alk. paper); 9781405121538 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Military history, Ancient | Rome -- History, Military | Rome -- ArmyDDC classification: 355.00937 LOC classification: U35 | .C648 2007
Contents:
I: Early Rome -- Warfare and the army in early Rome / John Rich -- The army and Centuriate organization in early Rome / Gary Forsythe -- II: Mid- and late republic -- Army and battle during the conquest of Italy (350-264 BC) / Louis Rawlings -- The age of overseas expansion (264-146 BC) / Dexter Hoyos -- The late republican army (146-30 BC) / Pierre Cagniart -- War and state formation in the Roman Republic / Paul Erdkamp -- Roman manpower and recruitment during the Middle Republic / Luuk de Ligt -- Military command, political power, and the Republican elite / Nathan Rosenstein -- Colonization, land distribution, and Veteran settlement / Will Broadhead -- Army and general in the Late Roman Republic / Lukas de Blois -- III: The empire (Actium to Adrianople) -- The structure of the imperial army -- The Augustan reform and the structure of the Imperial Army / Kate Gilliver -- Classes. The evolution of the Roman imperial fleets / D. B. Saddington -- Battle, tactics, and the emergence of the Limites in the West / James Thorne -- The army and the Limes in the east / Everett L. Wheeler -- Strategy and army structure between Septimius Severus and Constantine the Great / Karl Strobel -- Military organization -- Military documents, languages, and literacy / Sara Elise Phang -- Finances and costs of the Roman Army / Peter Herz -- War- and peacetime logistics: supplying imperial armies in east and west / Peter Kehne -- Army, emperor, and empire -- The Roman army and propaganda / Olivier Hekster -- The army and the Urban Elite: a competition for power / Clifford Ando -- Making emperors. Imperial instrument or independent force? / Anthony R. Birley -- Soldier and Veterans in society -- Military camps, Canabae, and Vici. The archaeological evidence / Norbert Hanel -- Marriage, families, and survival: demographic aspects / Walter Scheidel -- Recruits and Veterans / Gabriele Wesch-Klein -- The religions of the armies / Oliver Stoll -- IV: The late Roman Empire (up to Justinian) -- Warlords and landlords / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- The Foederati / Timo Stickler -- Army and society in the late Roman world: a context for decline? / Michael Whitby -- Army and battle in the age of Justinian (527-65) / Hugh Elton
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

I: Early Rome -- Warfare and the army in early Rome / John Rich -- The army and Centuriate organization in early Rome / Gary Forsythe -- II: Mid- and late republic -- Army and battle during the conquest of Italy (350-264 BC) / Louis Rawlings -- The age of overseas expansion (264-146 BC) / Dexter Hoyos -- The late republican army (146-30 BC) / Pierre Cagniart -- War and state formation in the Roman Republic / Paul Erdkamp -- Roman manpower and recruitment during the Middle Republic / Luuk de Ligt -- Military command, political power, and the Republican elite / Nathan Rosenstein -- Colonization, land distribution, and Veteran settlement / Will Broadhead -- Army and general in the Late Roman Republic / Lukas de Blois -- III: The empire (Actium to Adrianople) -- The structure of the imperial army -- The Augustan reform and the structure of the Imperial Army / Kate Gilliver -- Classes. The evolution of the Roman imperial fleets / D. B. Saddington -- Battle, tactics, and the emergence of the Limites in the West / James Thorne -- The army and the Limes in the east / Everett L. Wheeler -- Strategy and army structure between Septimius Severus and Constantine the Great / Karl Strobel -- Military organization -- Military documents, languages, and literacy / Sara Elise Phang -- Finances and costs of the Roman Army / Peter Herz -- War- and peacetime logistics: supplying imperial armies in east and west / Peter Kehne -- Army, emperor, and empire -- The Roman army and propaganda / Olivier Hekster -- The army and the Urban Elite: a competition for power / Clifford Ando -- Making emperors. Imperial instrument or independent force? / Anthony R. Birley -- Soldier and Veterans in society -- Military camps, Canabae, and Vici. The archaeological evidence / Norbert Hanel -- Marriage, families, and survival: demographic aspects / Walter Scheidel -- Recruits and Veterans / Gabriele Wesch-Klein -- The religions of the armies / Oliver Stoll -- IV: The late Roman Empire (up to Justinian) -- Warlords and landlords / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- The Foederati / Timo Stickler -- Army and society in the late Roman world: a context for decline? / Michael Whitby -- Army and battle in the age of Justinian (527-65) / Hugh Elton