02-18-2012, 09:05 PM
Quote:What evidence does Treadgold give for this? I'd always thought that pay remained nearly the same throughout the third century, at about Severan levels, with assorted supplements...Treadgold writes (p.154-5) that most of this was in donatives (I did not say it was basic pay :wink, "because after the inflation of the 3rd c. the official soldier's pay of 1.800 denarii was worth less than 2 later nomismata. Because the men's arms and uniforms were also supplied in kind, the comparable figures would be 9 nomismata for field soldiers before Anastasius' reforms (3 less than under Diocletian) and about 15 nomismata afterward (3 more than under Diocletian). "
He refers (p. 155 note 94) to Duncan-Jones, 'Pay under Diocletian'pp. 549-51. Treadgold took those figures (ralation to the year 300) and converted them into gold on the basis of Diocletians Edict, 28.1, which sets the price of a pound of gold (72 later nomismata) at 72.000 denarii in 301. These maximum prices soon all proved to low.
Several pages of this argument can be found here on Google books:
http://books.google.nl/books?id=xfV0LkMN...&q&f=false
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)