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…
"This is the first English-language book to deal comprehensive with the subject of the late Roman army." "The problems faced by the late Empire were not radically different from those confronting its earlier counterpart. However, in the later period - at least from the reign of …