01-18-2013, 05:16 PM
Quote:Jim Summerly, actually. He was one of the late Brian Dobson's research students at Durham University. His thesis is available for free download on the British Library's EthOS website here:
http://ethos.bl.uk/SearchResults.do
Just type 'James Summerly' into the search box and click 'Go'.
Thank you very much for this link. This is exactly the type scientific book, I am looking for!
I did read a lot of german and english books lately about the structure of the roman army, especially Domaszewski, Dobson, Breeze, Speidel, Le Bohec, Stauner, Junkelmann by interlibrary-loan .... and several articles found in the internet libraries or google.books.
Is there any other author (english or german), you would like to strongly recommend, who published a book about the structure of the roman army (Legions, auxilia vexillationes) covering the early empire, or 3rd century or late empire on a detailed academic level? Or a book on specific topics like adminstration of a legion, promotion of pricipales, etc. ?
Not the tons of popular scientific stuff usually found on amazon with more pictures than footnotes.
I usually rather look for books published in the last 30 years, because there is a lot of new evidence lately. On the other side Domaszewski proofs, that even a book from 1905 can be very worthful. I thought about Eric Birley, but does that makes sense after I have read Breeze and Dobson, which are disciples of him afaik?
I lately read the new book of Le Bohec (2010) about the Late Empire Army. But i was a bit frustrated afterwards. Either we don't know more about this eras army, or Le Bohec is a bit superficial here.
Sorry for beeing a bit off-topic with this question, but I guess my question matches the topic about the cohort commander in a wider sense.
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