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2024, The Civilian Legacy of the Roman Army
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Armstrong, J. and M.P. Fronda (eds.) Romans at War: Soldiers, Citizens, and Society in the Roman Republic. Routledge: London.
Romans at War: Soldiers, Citizens, and Society in the Roman Republic2019 •
This volume addresses the fundamental importance of the army, warfare, and military service to the development of both the Roman Republic and wider Italic society in the second half of the first millennium BC. It brings together emerging and established scholars in the area of Roman military studies to engage with subjects such as the relationship between warfare and economic and demographic regimes; the interplay of war, aristocratic politics, and state formation; and the complex role the military played in the integration of Italy. The book demonstrates the centrality of war to Rome's internal and external relationships during the Republic, as well as to the Romans' sense of identity and history. It also illustrates the changing scholarly view of warfare as a social and cultural construct in antiquity , and how much work remains to be done in what is often thought of as a "traditional" area of research. Romans at War will be of interest to students and scholars of the Roman army and ancient warfare, and of Roman society more broadly.
E. Stewart, E. Harris & D. Lewis (eds), Skilled Labour and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome (Cambridge UP,), 362-382
'A professional Roman army?'2020 •
It has become a commonplace in modern scholarly publications for the Roman army to be referred to as professional, most frequently in the context of the changes to the terms of military service introduced by the emperor Augustus. In contrast to the Republican period, when the Roman army was originally a citizen militia liable to annual call-up and for whom military service was not their primary source of income, Augustus established the principle of continuous long-term military service in return for an annual salary and a generous discharge bonus upon retirement. There can be no denying that these changes marked a very significant alteration in the character of the army – but does it warrant the term ‘professionalization’ which is so frequently invoked? The term ‘professional’ and its cognates are too often used in relation to the imperial Roman army without due consideration of the wide range of connotations which this terminology can bear in the modern world, resulting in the unfortunate importation of anachronistic assumptions into discourse about the Roman military. Ranging across the centuries from Augustus to late antiquity, this paper challenges the default use of the language of professionalization with reference to the Roman army and argues that while certain usages of the term ‘professional’ may be valid, there are so many other unhelpful modernising connotations arising from such terminology that it is better avoided.
This short article takes a fresh approach to untangle Livy's two 'snapshots' of the early Roman Republican army supposedly c.550 BC; and 340 BC and resolves interpretation of 'rorarii' and 'accensi' in the latter and points to anachronisms in the former as described by Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Review article discussing: The Late Roman Army, by P Southern & K R Dixon (1996); Unit Sizes in the Late Roman Army, by T Coello (1996); Warfare in Roman Europe AD 350-425, by H Elton (1996).
Conference report for the workshop that took place at the Freie Universität Berlin between the 15th and 16th August 2016, organised by the project 'Militarisierung frühmittelalterlicher Gesellschaften. Erscheinungsformen, Regulierung und Wahrnehmung im westeuropäischen Vergleich.' Published via HSozKult.
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The Roman Army during the Regal Period2018 •
The intention of this article is to give a brief overview of how the military power was organised in Rome during the regal period. There is little information about the military organisation of the Romans between 753 and 509 BC. However, some written historical sources have enabled us to reconstruct some aspects of the military life in early Rome. The Indo-European studies and the comparative mythology of the Indo-European peoples also help to understand how the warrior function was valued in early Roman society. Like the other Indo-European peoples, the Romans structured their society in a system reflecting the ideology of the three functions represented, according to G. Dumézil, by the priests, warriors and herdsmen-cultivators. The same conception can be found at the theological level, within the triad Jupiter, Mars, Quirinus, the most important gods of Rome. Romulus, the founder of Rome, is the son of the god Mars, thereby consecrating the predominance of the warlike function wi...
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