08-29-2023, 05:59 PM
(08-28-2023, 06:44 PM)Been re-reading this very thorough and insightful article of the Master of the Soldiers in the ND - https://www.notitiadignitatum.org/21a-mast.pdf Wrote: This was drafted in 2019 and revised in 2022. It analyses the ND and various laws and papyri where the role and function of the MS is presented and essentially covers the same ground as Kadellis and Kruse's work. What it doesn't do is present a thesis interpreting the role of the MS and when it became consolidated into the 5 Magister system as presented in the ND. Instead, it states very carefully that:
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