01-09-2007, 07:40 PM
Hi
According to Simon MacDowall (Late Roman Cavalryman AD 236-565 and Adrianople AD 378), after Adrianople (378) the mobile comitatenses become more as the static limitanei, and by the 6th century they were finally reduced to static garrisons, while the roman field armies had evolved into large bands of mounted warriors
Graham Sumner in Roman Military Clothing (3) AD 400-640 illustrated a soldiers of the Lanciarii seniores (according to the Notitia Dignitatum, a unit praesentalis) forming part of the army stationed in the Danube at the end of the 6th century, under Maurice's reign. The plate is called Army on the Danube, late 6th century.
Then the praesentalis armies, unlike the comitatenses, remained as a mobile force in the 6th century?
According to Simon MacDowall (Late Roman Cavalryman AD 236-565 and Adrianople AD 378), after Adrianople (378) the mobile comitatenses become more as the static limitanei, and by the 6th century they were finally reduced to static garrisons, while the roman field armies had evolved into large bands of mounted warriors
Graham Sumner in Roman Military Clothing (3) AD 400-640 illustrated a soldiers of the Lanciarii seniores (according to the Notitia Dignitatum, a unit praesentalis) forming part of the army stationed in the Danube at the end of the 6th century, under Maurice's reign. The plate is called Army on the Danube, late 6th century.
Then the praesentalis armies, unlike the comitatenses, remained as a mobile force in the 6th century?
I am very interested in the evolution of the roman army from Gallienus to Heraclius (c. 260-640)