The Civilian Legacy of the Roman Army

Military Models in the Post-Roman World
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69347-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 144, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: History of Warfare

The Roman army represented an important social and organizational reference model for the Romano-Barbarian societies, which progressively replaced the Western Empire in the transition from Late Antiquity to Early Middle Ages. The great flexibility of the decision-making and organizational solutions used by the Roman army allowed the ‘new lords’ to readapt them and thus maintain power in early medieval Europe for a long time.

From a perspective ranging from political, social and economic history to law, anthropology, and linguistic, this book demonstrates how interesting and fruitful the investigation of this specific cultural imprint can be in order to gain a better understanding of the origins of the civilization that arouse after the fall of the Roman world.

Contributors are Francesco Borri, Fabio Botta, Francesco Castagnino, Stefan Esders, Carla Falluomin, Stefano Gasparri, Wolfgang Haubrichs, Soazick Kerneis, Luca Loschiavo, Valerio Marotta, Esperanza Osaba, Walter Pohl, Jean-Pierre Poly, Pierfrancesco Porena, Iolanda Ruggiero, Andrea Trisciuoglio, Andrea A. Verardi, and Ian Wood.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Loschiavo, Luca

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Maps

Contributors

1 Transformation of the Military in the Late Antique West

Ian Wood

PART 1: The Words of the Soldiers

2 Hospitalitas (I.): The Munus Hospitalitatis and Its limits

Andrea Trisciuoglio

3 Hospitalitas (II.): The Changing Meaning of Hospitalitas

Pierfrancesco Porena

4 Warrior Names and Military Language of the Westgermanic Peoples: Franks and Langobards

Wolfgang Haubrichs

5 The Gothic Language of Warfare

Carla Falluomini

PART 2: Social and Juridical Structures

6 Militia and Civitas between Third and Sixth Century CE

Valerio Marotta

7 Persecuting Latrones, Maintaining Disciplina, Enforcing the Velox Supplicium: The Frankish Centena Accordind to Childebert II’s Decree

Stefan Esders

8 Soldiers’ Marriages: Before and after the Fall of the Empire

Francesco Castagnino

9 Soldiers’ Inheritance: The Testamentum Militis and other Privileges from the Imperial Constitutions to the Leges Barbarorum

Iolanda Ruggiero

PART 3: Symbols, Rituals and Identity Models

10 The Cingulum Militiae in the Early Middle Ages: Between Status and Function

Andrea A. Verardi

11 Answering the Call to Arms: Lex Visigothorum 9.2

Esperanza Osaba

12 ‘Traditionskern’, ‘Gefolgschaft’: More Questions Than Answers

Francesco Borri

13 The Lombard Army Between Myth and Reality: Farae, Arimanniae, Arimanni

Stefano Gasparri

PART 4: Geometries of the Power and Military Justice

14 Laeti and Gentiles: Military Germanic Settlements in Roman Gaul

Jean-Pierre Poly

15 Personality of Law or Ius Speciale Militum? Around the Origins of the Leges Barbarorum

Luca Loschiavo

16 Late Roman Military Justice and the Birth of Ordeal

Soazick Kerneis

17 Collective Criminal Responsibility and Comrades’ Solidarity: From Roman Military Formations to Barbarian Armed Bands

Fabio Botta

18 From the Roman Army to the Laws of the Kingdoms: Concluding Remarks

Walter Pohl

Index of Names and Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Luca Loschiavo, Ph.D. (1994) is full Professor of Medieval and Modern Legal History at the University of Teramo (Italy). He has published 3 books as author (the last one is L’età del passaggio. All’alba del diritto commune europeo (secoli III – VII), 2019); 8 as coeditor; and 80 essays on medieval legal history.