Roman Fortresses and Their Legions : Papers in Honour of George C. Boon

by Brewer, Richard J.

• ISBN13: 9780854312740
• ISBN10: 0854312749
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

Roman Fortresses and their Legions had its origins in a conference held in 1992, and contains 11 papers by leading Roman military archaeologists on the fortresses of Roman legions from Britain, Germany and the Danube region to the eastern empire. It will appeal to both general and specialist readers interested in Roman military archaeology. Historians, including the pioneer antiquaries, have long realised that the study of the legions is fundamental to our understanding of the history of the Roman Empire. The essays in this volume, contributed by some of today's foremost scholars of Roman army studies, range across the whole of the Roman Empire - including Britain, the Danube lands and the eastern provinces - and cover a wide variety of themes. Authors effectively combine evidence derived from ancient sources and inscriptions with the rapidly growing amount of information and detail obtained from archaeological excavation. The volume covers the period from Augustus, when the plans of permanent legionary fortresses were beginning to evolve, to the Late Empire, when the legion was a very different body from that with which we are familiar in the early imperial period. The essays are dedicated to the late George C Boon FSA, FRHistS to mark his vast contribution to Roman scholarship.

Table of Contents

Contributors
List of illustrations
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
George Counsell Boon 1927-1994	p. 1
A select bibliography of the publications of George Counsell Boon	p. 5
The Legion, the Erudit and the Academie des Inscriptions	p. 13
The organization of the fortresses in Augustan Germany	p. 29
The organization of legionary supply: the Claudian invasion of Britain	p. 41
Pre-Hadrianic legionary dispositions in Britain	p. 51
The fortresses of legio XX	p. 69
Legio VIIII in Britain: the beginning and the end	p. 83
Roman legions and their fortresses in the Danube lands (first to third centuries AD)	p. 101
Roman legionary fortresses in the East	p. 121
The architecture of the legionary principia	p. 139
Vegetius' legion and the archaeological facts	p. 149
The legions in the Late Empire	p. 159
Index	p. 183
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