Reflections on ‘Writing the Legions’: Roman military scholarship
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Resource type
Book chapter
Creator (person)
Jones, Rebecca H
Date published
2025
Abstract
The paper reflects on a seminal paper by Simon James in 2002 exploring the impact of Professor Eric Birley and his ‘Durham School’ on studies of the Roman army and Roman frontiers. The paper considers some of the cultural relativism that led to this and some of the challenges and legacies today. This includes the dominance of several male scholars of archaeology based in universities in southern England at that time as well as different approaches to dissemination.
Book title
Relativism and the frontiers of Empire: critical perspectives on Roman soldiers, communities and military landscapes
Editor
Walas, Anna
Birley, Andrew
Pagination
52-59
Publisher
Archaeopress
Place of publication
Oxford
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