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Roman Military Law (Paperback)
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Roman Military Law (Paperback)
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Rome was the law-giver for much of the modern world. She was also
the greatest military power of antiquity, operating her military
organization with remarkable efficiency and effectiveness
throughout most of the then-known world. In view of the importance
of both the legal and military aspects of the Roman Empire, an
account of their combination in a system of disciplinary control
for the Roman armies is of considerable significance to historians
in both fields-and, in fact, to scholars in general. In Roman
Military Law,C. E. Brand describes this system of control. Since a
characterization of such a system can be made most meaningful only
against a background of Roman constitutional government and in the
light of ideologies current at the time, Brand follows his initial
"Note on Sources" with a sketch of the contemporary Roman scene.
This first section includes a discussion of the Roman constitution
and an examination ofRoman criminal law. The history of Rome, as a
republic, principate, and empire, extended over a period of a
thousand years, so any attempt to represent a generalized picture
must be essentially a matter of extraction and condensation from
the voluminous literature of the whole era. Nevertheless, from the
fantastic evolution that is the history of Rome, Brand has been
able to construct a more or less static historical mosaic that may
be considered typically"Roman." This comes into sharpest focus
during the period of the PunicWars, when the city and its people
were most intensely Roman. The picture of the Roman armies is set
into this basic framework, in chapters dealing with military
organization, disciplinary organization, religion and discipline,
and offenses and punishments. The final section of the book
considers briefly the vast changes in Romaninstitutions that came
about under the armies of the Empire, and then concludes with the
Latin text and an English translation of the only knowncode of
Roman military justice, promulgated sometime during the
laterEmpire, preserved in Byzantine literature, and handed down to
medieval times in Latin translations of Byzantine Greek law, which
it has heretofore been confused.
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