Roman Imperial Armour

The Production of Early Imperial Military Armour

von David Sim, J. Kaminski

180 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Roman Imperial Armour reveals how Roman armies forged powerful, disciplined legions through advanced metal production and weaponry.The Roman Empire depended on the power of its armies to defend and extend the imperial borders, enabling it to dominate much of Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Success was, in large part, founded on well-trained, well-disciplined soldiers who were equipped with the most advanced arms and armour available at that time. This is the story of the production of that armour. Roman Imperial Armour presents an examination of the metals the armour was made from, of how the ores containing those metals were extracted from the earth and transformed into workable metal and of how that raw product was made into the armour of the Roman army. The policing and protecting of such a huge empire required a large and well-organised force and the book goes on to consider the organisation of the army, its size, composition, the logistics involved in its deployment and provisioning and the training, remuneration and benefits offered to its men at arms.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte Römer
• ISBN: 9781842174357
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.01.2012
• Größe: 241 x 172 mm
• Verlag: Oxbow Books Limited