03-13-2014, 02:56 PM
Just reading Hallsall's Warfare and Society ( thanks to one of my fellow Ratters!) .
No units seem to have survived, but in seventh century Visigothic Spain "The provinces of the Spanish kingdon continued to be used as military districts with provoncial armies commanded by a dux exercitus provinciae.....As in the sixth century , the army itself was divided into apparently decimally organised sub-units led by tiuphadi ..."commander of a thousand", quingentarii (commanders of 500), centuriones and decuriones."
There is also a reference which seems to mean that lists were kept of those who did military service".- implying some of the old controls and management may also have survived. (Halsall G., Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West 450-900, Routledge 2003, page 60 )
That seems to indicate certainly some organisational survival of the army under a new Visigothic elite?
No units seem to have survived, but in seventh century Visigothic Spain "The provinces of the Spanish kingdon continued to be used as military districts with provoncial armies commanded by a dux exercitus provinciae.....As in the sixth century , the army itself was divided into apparently decimally organised sub-units led by tiuphadi ..."commander of a thousand", quingentarii (commanders of 500), centuriones and decuriones."
There is also a reference which seems to mean that lists were kept of those who did military service".- implying some of the old controls and management may also have survived. (Halsall G., Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West 450-900, Routledge 2003, page 60 )
That seems to indicate certainly some organisational survival of the army under a new Visigothic elite?
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