09-27-2009, 10:54 AM
Yeah, something like that.
I'm not sure just what the Notitia Dignitatum tells us, but it is suggestive. :wink: Less so our musings on names and structures.
As you say, it's all pretty speculative. :roll: I started this inquiry because I was writing YA historical fiction set in the fifth century, but with so few reliable sources I might as well be writing fantasy. I've temporarily abandoned the project, even though I finished two novels and was halfway through two more (with another outlined), because I ended up with an anachronistic mess of late Roman Empire with late Anglo-Saxon/early Medieval.
I figured--correctly, as it turned out--that you/us RAT folks had a clearer picture of the extent and limitations of actual sources. More limitations than extent.
I'm not sure just what the Notitia Dignitatum tells us, but it is suggestive. :wink: Less so our musings on names and structures.
As you say, it's all pretty speculative. :roll: I started this inquiry because I was writing YA historical fiction set in the fifth century, but with so few reliable sources I might as well be writing fantasy. I've temporarily abandoned the project, even though I finished two novels and was halfway through two more (with another outlined), because I ended up with an anachronistic mess of late Roman Empire with late Anglo-Saxon/early Medieval.
I figured--correctly, as it turned out--that you/us RAT folks had a clearer picture of the extent and limitations of actual sources. More limitations than extent.
"Fugit irreparabile tempus" (Irrecoverable time glides away) Virgil
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