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List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- List of figures
- List of tables
- 1: Introduction Blood of the Provinces
- Section 1: The Auxilia and the Structures of Imperial Power
- 2: The formative years: from the Late Republic to the Death of Tiberius
- 3: Together under the name of Romans : The auxilia from Claudius to Trajan
- 4: A New Provincialism: Hadrian and the Antonine Revolutions
- 5: Shifting Fortunes: The auxilia under the Severans
- Section 2: The Human Resource: The Recruitment of the auxilia and its Consequences
- 6: The Captive Body: Individual Recruitment
- 7: Geopolitics: How Rome selectively exploited the manpower of the provinces
- 8: Recruitment and the limits of localism
- 9: Ethnic exceptionalism? Examining special recruitment practices
- Section 3: A Home from Rome: Daily Life in the auxilia
- 10: Military Service and the Urban Experience
- 11: Incorporation through routine: the power of everyday life
- Section 4: Through the Eyes of Believers: Religion, Ritual Activity and Cult Practice
- 12: Sacred space and sacred time in the ^iauxilia^r
- 13: Centralising cult
- 14: Distinct cult communities within the auxilia
- Section 5: Arms and the Men: Equipment, Tactics and Identity
- 15: Armoury of the Bricoleur? The disparate origins of auxiliary equipment
- 16: Status, competition and military adornment
- 17: Between Roman and Barbarian: Auxiliary soldiers on the Battlefield
- 18: Disarming ethnicity? Ethnic fighting traditions in the alae and cohortes
- Sectiion 6: Pen and Sword: Communication and Cultural Transformation
- 19: The Spoken Word
- 20: The Written Word
- Section 7: Auxiliary Veterans and the Making of Provincial Society
- 21: Veterani and other veterans
- 22: Conclusion: Embodying Rome
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Ian Haynes is Professor of Archaeology at Newcastle University. He has worked on Roman sites in Britain, Italy, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic, and is currently project director of excavations at Maryport, Cumbria. Professor Haynes was formerly chair of the archaeology committee of the Roman Society and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and a trustee of both the Clayton Trust and the Vindolanda Trust.
Summary
This is the first fully comprehensive study of the auxilia, a non-citizen force which constituted more than half of Rome's celebrated armies. Diverse in origins, character, and culture, they played an essential role in building the empire, sustaining the unequal peace celebrated as the pax Romana, and enacting the emperor's writ.
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I. Haynes's book is the first fully rounded attempt to evoke auxiliaries as people, family men and social actors, not just within the context of Rome's armies but also in the creation of provincial societies. A century on, it is a worthy twenty-first-century volume to place alongside Cheesmans classic.
