Using a full range of original literary sources, modern Continental scholarship, and current archaeological research, Pat Southern and Karen R. Dixon provide a stimulating overview of the historical period, the critical changes in the army, and the way these changes affected the morale of the soldiers.

Dixon, Karen R.; Southern, Pat

Chapter I Sources; Chapter II Crisis and Transition; Chapter III Barbarians and Bureaucrats; Chapter IV Recruitment; Chapter V Conditions of Service; chapter VI Equipment; chapter VII Fortifications; chapter VIII Siege Warfare; Chapter IX The Morale of the Late Roman Army; Chapter X The end of the Army;