ABSTRACT

Using a full range of original literary sources, modern Continental scholarship, and current archaeological research, Pat Southern and Karen R. Dixon provide a stimulating overview of the historical period, the critical changes in the army, and the way these changes affected the morale of the soldiers.

chapter I|3 pages

Sources

chapter II|35 pages

Crisis and Transition

chapter III|28 pages

Barbarians and Bureaucrats

The Army from Constantine to Justinian

chapter IV|9 pages

Recruitment

chapter V|13 pages

Conditions of Service

chapter VI|38 pages

Equipment

chapter VII|21 pages

Fortifications

chapter VIII|20 pages

Siege Warfare

chapter IX|11 pages

The Morale of the Late Roman Army

chapter X|2 pages

The end of the Army