Running the Roman Army how much did the emperor really know about his armies?
This time we look at the bureaucracy of the Roman army in the first to thrid centuries AD. In essence, how organised and effieicent was the Roman army when it came to tracking men, animals, equipment and keeping track of the strength and readiness of its units. Most of the time this means examing evidence from papyri, writing tablets and texts on pottery fragments rather than the stories told by the famous historians.
Interesting in itself, this is important background to the wider questions of whether or not the Romans had - or even were capqable of devising - a Grand Strategy, and just how the frontiers worked.
Most of the slides for this talk are from a very old lecture and there seems to have been a problem converting the format, so apologies if some are less than clear.
For further reading, R. Davies, Service in the Roman Army and R. Fink, Roman Military Records on Papyrus. The Carlisle tablets have been edited and published in Britannia by Roger Tomlin.
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