The Civilian Legacy of the Roman Army / / edited by Luca Loschiavo.

• Superior document: History of Warfare ; 144
• TeilnehmendeR: Loschiavo, Luca,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: History of Warfare ; 144.; Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (528 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

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.