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13 - A Professional Roman Army?

from Part V - Case Studies of Professions 3: A Profession of Arms?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Doug Lee
Edited by
Edmund Stewart ,
Edward Harris  and
David Lewis
Edmund Stewart
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
Edward Harris
Affiliation:
University of Durham
David Lewis
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
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Summary

This chapter challenges the default use of the language of professionalization with reference to the Roman army of the imperial period and argues that while certain usages of the term ‘professional’ may be valid, there are so many other unhelpful modernising connotations arising from such terminology that it is better avoided.

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Augustan reformsmodernising assumptionsRoman officerstraining
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Skilled Labour and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome , pp. 362 - 382
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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