The Impact of the Roman Army (200 B.C. - A.D. 476)

Economic, Social, Political, Religious and Cultural Aspects
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-16044-6
Verlag: de Gruyter Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 590 Seiten, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 1238 g

Reihe: Impact of Empire

To many inhabitants of the Roman Empire the army was the most visible representation of imperial power. Roman troops were the embodiment of imperial control. Military installations and buildings, the imperial guard, other troops, fleets, and militarily tinged works of art brought home the majesty of Rome to anybody who saw them, in Rome and in other parts of the Empire. With Roman armies came administrators, taxes and requisitions in cash and kind, traders, permanently residing veterans and military personnel, useful relations between local notables and Roman military cadre, and chances of upward social mobility. This sixth volume in the series Impact of Empire focuses on these topics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blois, Lukas

Blois, Lukas de

Lo Cascio, Elio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Lukas de Blois is Professor of Ancient History at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published books and articles on the history of the Roman Empire in the third century A.D., the history of the Late Roman Republic, ancient historiography, Plutarch’s biographies, and Greek Sicily in the fourth century B.C. He also published a manual (L. de Blois & R.J. van der Spek, Introduction to the Ancient World, London/ New York 1997).
Elio Lo Cascio is Professor of Roman History at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome. His published work primarily focuses on three topics: the administrative history of the Principate and of the Late Empire; the economic and social history of Rome, and Roman population history and the impact of demographic change on the economy and society of Rome. His most recent publications include Il princeps e il suo impero. Studi di storia amministrativa e finanziaria romana, Bari 2000; and the edited volume Innovazione tecnica e progresso economico nel mondo romano, Bari 2006.