Exploring the Mid-Republican Origins of Roman Military Administration

With Stylus and Spear
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-74554-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

This volume demonstrates the development of Roman military bureaucracy during the Middle Republic, expanding on recent research to examine these administrative systems that made possible Rome’s expansion in this period.

Bringing together literary works, epigraphy, archaeology, topography and demography, the study reveals a complex and well-structured bureaucratic system developing in parallel with the army during the Middle Republic, propelled in no small part by the stresses of the Hannibalic War. Not only the contents of documents, but the physical objects, individuals and spaces are discussed to re-create the administrative processes in maximum detail.

Exploring the Mid-Republican Origins of Roman Military Administration provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Rome’s military and administrative history, as well as anyone working on the Republican period.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pearson, Elizabeth H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Militär- und Verteidigungstechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; I: Dilectus; II: The census and centralised military bureaucracy; III: Recording men on campaign; IV: Tributum and stipendium; V: Documents and archives; VI: Record producers and record keepers; Conclusion: The Mid-Republican origins of Roman military administration; Appendix I: Men liable and available for military service; Appendix II: Men over 17 years old with a paterfamilias; Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth H. Pearson is an independent scholar. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, in 2016. In 2020, she won the Society of Military History’s Vandervort Prize for her article ‘Decimation and Unit Cohesion: Why Were Legionaries Willing to Perform Decimation?’.