The third century AD was a turbulent and testing time for the Roman Empire. A new and powerful foe in the east had risen
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From the Latin warriors on the Palatine Hill in the age of Romulus, to the last defenders of Constantinople in 1453 AD,
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The positioning of the legions of the Imperial Roman army provides a window into both the thinking and the course of eve
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This volume, edited by Martin Auer and Christoph Hinker, unites 13 papers presented at the 4th Aguntum Workshop. This in
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The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in the ancient world. More than that, it was the single largest organiz
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The history of the Late Roman Empire in the West has been divided into two parallel worlds, analysed either as a politic
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An illustrated study of the British tribal warriors and Roman auxiliaries who fought in three epic battles for control o
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No book on Roman history has attempted to do what Stephen Dando-Collins does in Legions of Rome: to provide a complete h
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Recent research has called into question the orthodox view that the last two centuries of the Roman Republic witnessed a
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An exploration of life in the early medieval West, using pigs as a lens to investigate agriculture, ecology, economy, an
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