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Roman Imperial Armour: The Production of Early Imperial Military Armour

By David Sim , Jaime Kaminski

Book information

Publisher
Oxbow Books
Year
2012
ISBN
1842174355, 9781842174357
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
31 MB (32937517 bytes)
Pages
xii+180+ 8 Plates\201
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2014-03-16 20:42:23

Description

The Roman Empire depended on the power of its armies to defend and extend the imperial borders, enabling it to dominate much of Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Success was, in large part, founded on well-trained, well-disciplined soldiers who were equipped with the most advanced arms and armour available at that time. This is the story of the production of that armour. Roman Imperial Armour presents an examination of the metals the armour was made from, of how the ores containing those metals were extracted from the earth and transformed into workable metal and of how that raw product was made into the armour of the Roman army. The policing and protecting of such a huge empire required a large and well-organised force and the book goes on to consider the organisation of the army, its size, composition, the logistics involved in its deployment and provisioning and the training, remuneration and benefits offered to its men at arms.

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