Anthony Kaldellis, Marion Kruse

Field Armies of the East Roman Empire, 361-630 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a new history of the leadership, organization, and disposition of the field armies of the east Roman empire between Julian (361-363) and Herakleios (610-641). To date, scholars studying this topic have privileged a poorly understood document, the Notitia dignitatum, and imposed it on the entire period from 395 to 630. This study, by contrast, gathers all of the available narrative, legal, papyrological, and epigraphic evidence to demonstrate empirically that the Notitia system emerged only in the 440s and that it was already mutating by the late fifth century before being fundamentally reformed during Justinian's wars of reconquest. This realization calls for a new, revised history of the eastern armies. Every facet of military policy must be reassessed, often with broad implications for the period. The volume provides a new military narrative for the period 361-630 and appendices revising the prosopography of high-ranking generals and arguing for a later Notitia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009296908
• Artikelnr.: 68954659

Autorenporträt

Anthony Kaldellis is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. He has written on many aspects of Byzantine history, literature, and culture, including the reception of the classical tradition, identities (Romanland, 2019), monuments (The Christian Parthenon, Cambridge University Press, 2009), and politics (The Byzantine Republic, 2015). He has completed a new history of Byzantium (The New Roman Empire, forthcoming) and is the host of the popular podcast Byzantium & Friends.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The high command from Julian to Theodosius I (361
395 AD); 2. The late emergence of the eastern Notitia-system (395
450 AD); 3. The 'classic' phase of the eastern field armies (450
506 AD); 4. The dispersal and decline of the eastern field armies (506
630 AD).