The late Roman Army in the Near East from Diocletian to the Arab Conquest
Subtitle: proceedings of a colloquium held at Potenza, Acerenza and Matera, Italy / May 2005)
By: edited by Ariel S. Lewin, Pietrina Pellegrini ; with the aid of Zbigniew T. Fiema and Sylvain Janniard.
Contributors: Lewin, Ariel.; Pellegrini, Pietrina.; Fiema, Zbigniew T.; Janniard, Sylvain.
Series: BAR international series -- 1717
Publisher: Archaeopress; Available from Hadrian Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9781407301617
Subjects: Rome -- History, Military; Rome -- Army
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: SECOND TO THIRD CENTURY: Prolegomeni ad un congresso: considerazioni sull'esercito romano dell'alto Impero / Giovanni Brizzi; title: L'armée romaine en mer Rouge et autour de la mer Rouge aux IIème et IIIème siècles apr. J. C.: à propos de deux inscriptions latines découvertes sur l'archipel Farasan / Francois Villeneuve; title: New Light on the Roman military base at Dura-Europos: interim report on a pilot season of fieldwork in 2005 / Simon James; title: From Praepositus Pretenturae to Dux Ripae.the Roman 'grand strategy' on the Middle Euphrates (2nd - 3rd cent. AD) / Tommaso Gnoli; title: The Roman legionary camp at Legio, Israel: results of an archaeological survey and observations on the Roman military presence at the site / Yotam Tepper; title: The development of the Roman forces in northeastern Anatolia. New evidence for the history of the exercitus appadocicus / Michael A. Speidel; title: LATE THIRD TO SEVENTH CENTURY. The Nabataeaan - Roman Negev in the third century CE / Tali Erickson-Gini; title: The Paved Road from Petra to the ʹArabah: commercial Nabataean or military Roman? / Chaim Ben-David; title: Beʼer Shema: Birsama of the Notitia Dignitatum: a prolegomenon to the 2006 excavations / Benjamin J. Dolinka; title: Crossing the Negev in late Roman times: the administrative development of Palaestina Tertia Salutaris and of its imperial road network / Israel Roll; title: From the constructive technique used in the military architecture of the Limes Arabicus to its conservation and valorisation / Giuseppe Claudio Infranca; title: Military architecture of the Limes Arabicus: strategy, commercial routes, Quotidian life / Maysoun Al-Khouri; title: Economic conditions, security problems and the deployment of the army in later Roman Palestine. Part I: Economy and population / Israel Shatzman; title: Fluctuating provincial borders in mid-4th Century Arabia and Palestine / Joonas Sipilä; title: Zosimos II.34.1 and 'The Constantinian Reform': using Johannes Lydos to expose an insidious fabrication / Peter Brennan; title: Two sieges of Amida (AD 359 and 502-503) and the experience of combat in the late Roman Near East / Noel Lenski; title: Naval operations during Persian expedition of Emperor Julian (363 AD) / Edward Dąbrowa; title: ʹAmr Ibn ʹAdī, Mavia, the Phylarchs and the late Roman Army: peace and war in the Near East / Ariel S. Lewin; title: L'armée romaine et la défense de la Syrie du Sud. Questions de méthode et nouveau document / Maurice Sartre; title: Central power, local administration, and nomadic environment in Roman Arabia (1st - 3rd century) / Thomas Brüggemann; title: Moines, militaires et défense de la frontière orientale au VIe s. / Geoffrey Greatrex; title: Archaeological and ancient literary evidence for a battle near Dara Gap, Turkey, AD 530: topography, texts and trenches / Christopher Lillington-Martin; title: The Byzantine military in the Petra papyri - a summary / Zbigniew T. Fiema; title: The operational methods of the late Roman army in the Persian War of 572-591 / Frank R. Trombley; title: Una guarnigione bizantina a Roma nell'etá di Gregorio Magno: i Theodosiaci / Pietrina Pellegrini; title: Jews, Rats, and the Battle of Yarmūk / David Woods; title: THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY. Cavalry in late Roman warfare / Hugh Elton; title: 28) Centuriones ordinarii et ducenarii dans l'armée romaine tardive (IIIe -VIe s. apr. J.-C.) / Sylvain Janniard; title: Campidoctores Vicarii vel Tribuni: the senior regimental officers of the late Roman army and the rise of the Campidoctor / P. Rance; title: From the late Roman to the early Byzantine army. Two aspects of change / Oliver Schmitt; title: EGYPT. L'occupation militaire tardive dans les oasis d'Égypte. L'exemple de Douch / M. Reddé; title: L'armée romaine d'Afrique de 375 à 439: Mythes et réalités / Yann Le Bohec.