"Annotated Notitia Dignitatum?" Topic
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| FilsduPoitou | 29 Feb 2024 9:18 p.m. PST |
Would anyone happen to know of either a well laid out website or (preferably) a book that goes over the different army units mentioned in the Notitia Dignitatum? Not just names and shield designs but what kind of unit it was and where it might have been based? |
| IanWillcocks | 01 Mar 2024 3:47 a.m. PST |
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Have you seen this? Always found it an excellent source of info on Late Roman units |
| Dexter Ward | 01 Mar 2024 3:49 a.m. PST |
WRG Armies and Enemies of Imperial Rome has all the shields as line drawings, with the text giving the colours, and notes on what each unit was. |
| Ryan T | 01 Mar 2024 8:44 p.m. PST |
Check out Gabriele Esposito, The Late Roman Army, Winged Hussar Publishers, 2017. I have a copy and it has at least some of the information you are asking for. |
| GurKhan | 02 Mar 2024 5:46 a.m. PST |
Another vote for Luke U-S's site (the link Ian Willcocks gave). Has images of the shields from several different Notitia manuscripts – which tend to show slightly different colours – and a lot of supporting info and references. |
| The Last Conformist | 04 Mar 2024 4:32 a.m. PST |
Several of the old WRG books are available again, thanks to print-on-demand. See here for a presumably complete list:
wrg.me.uk/WRG.net/index.html (scroll down) Additionally, an updated edition of Armies of the Ancient Near East is reportedly in the works. |
| FilsduPoitou | 19 Mar 2024 5:29 p.m. PST |
Thank you everyone for their suggestions. I ended up getting Esposito's Late Roman Army (I forgot that I already had the WRG book on Imperial Rome) and it seems to cover what I'm exactly looking for. |
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