Ruling an Empire in a Changing World: The Origin, Impact, and Reception of the Notitia Dignitatum

Contents

The Main Manuscripts Containing the Notitia Dignitatum

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Introduction

The Compilation ???Notitia Dignitatum??? The Hidden History and Riddles of a Late Roman Register of Dignities and Administrations ??? Peter Brennan

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2. Document and Transmission History??

Sp??tantike Schriftlichkeit und neuzeitliche Verschiebung. Zur ??berlieferung und zum K??rzungssystem der Notitia Dignitatum ??? Kirsten Wallenwein

The Codex Spirensis and the Use of Roman Geographical and ???Administrative??? Documents in the Early Medieval West ??? Charles M??riaux

Herausforderungen des Ungleichzeitigen. Die Kopien der Notitia Dignitatum zwischen dem 9. und 19. Jahrhundert ??? von Joris Corin Heyder

Notitia Dignitatum und Tabula Peutingeriana vor dem Hintergrund der r??mischen Kartographie ??? Silke Diederich

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3. Illustrations

The Illustrations in the Notitia Dignitatum ??? Stephen Johnson

Largitiones. Die Originale der Sp??tantike und ihre Darstellungen in der Notitia Dignitatum ??? Barbara Niemeyer

Animal Imagery as Topographical Allusions in the Insignia of Notitia Dignitatum in Partibus Orientis ??? Jacek Wiewiorowski

A Tale of Many Cities and their Copies??? Depictions of ???Cities??? and ???Forts??? in the Notitia Dignitatum ??? Dahm

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4. ND as a Source in Military History

Military Documents in the Later Roman Empire: the Evidence of Ammianus Marcellinus, the Notitia Dignitatum, and Vegetius ??? Conor Whately

Das Ordnungssystem der Notitia Dignitatum f??r die Listen der Limitantruppen am Beispiel der norisch-pannonischen Donaudukate.Mit einem Blick auf die Milit??rschematismen der ??sterreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie ??? Hannsj??rg Ubl

Unit Lists and Roman Bureaucratic Traditions in the Notitia Dignitatum (pars Orientis) ??? Michael A. Speidel

Brecantia/Bregenz ??? a Synopsis of the Archaeological Evidence in the 4th and Early 5th Century in Relation to the Notitia Dignitatum ??? Oberhoferii

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5. Border Defence and Organisation

The North African Military Commands ??? Rushworth

The Roman Military Presence in Egypt???s Western Desert in Light of the Notitia Dignitatum ??? Kucera

Notitia Dignitatum and the Limes of Moesia Prima: Strategic Relevance and Landscape ??? Vujadin Ivani??evi?? and Ivan Bugarski

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6. Administration and Structure

Die milit??rischen Abteilungen des Grenzheeres in der Notitia Dignitatum ??? Michael Zerjadtke

Hierarchy and Administrative Geography in the Laterculus Veronensis and the Notitia Dignitatum ??? Dani??lle Slootjes

Sub Dispositione: Assessing a Phrase in the Notitia Dignitatum ??? Maxime Emion

The Command of the dux Britanniarum: Reconstructing a Late Roman Army from Text and Material Culture ??? Rob Collins

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7. Conclusion

An Anti-user??s Guide to the Notitia Dignitatum ??? Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele

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8. Bibliography

Bibliography

About the Author

Marko Jelusi?? studied at G??ttingen (Pre- and Early History/ Christian Archaeology); MA (Feiburg i. Br.) in Provincial Roman Archaeology in 2017; 2018 start with a PhD which deals with a first general study about the shield depictions inside the various copies of the Notitia Dignitatum. Research Associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences/ Dpt. Digital Archaeology and Classics.

Silvio Roggo studied at Fribourg (History; Classics); M.A (Heidelberg) in Ancient History 2016; MSt (Oxon.) in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies; 2022 PhD (Cantab.) in History 2022. Postdoctoral researcher at the Goethe University Frankfurt on the DFG-funded project ???Commentary on John of Epheses???s Ecclesiastical History??? (PIs Hartmut Leppin and Philip Forness) since 2022.??