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OverviewLand was the ideal store of wealth in the ancient Mediterranean world. It brought social respectability, and its possession allowed participation in the politics of the cities governed by landowning elites. Crucial defense of the interests of a given polity through armed services often involved the distribution of lands to laborers still not integrated in these societies. Mediterranean urban dynamics also involved paid labor and were always in need of short-contract manpower, including skilled soldiers and warriors. For short-time military services, lands were not always available so soldiers and warriors were paid with coins and riches. Because of their superior development, urban economies in the Mediterranean were able to attract migrant paid labor. When returning home, the migrant warriors carried coins and riches that would enable them to maximize the return that a homecoming entailed. Although difficult to prove whether these men were paid in advance or when discharged, it is an important issue as it shows the strength of one contractor over another and helps to better understand the construction of statehood in ancient and early medieval times. This collection of papers sheds light on how coins, riches, and lands were gained and distributed among soldiers, warriors, and mercenaries. Contributions cover a wide chronological span from Late Pharaonic to early medieval times, linking a well-defined core area, the Mediterranean basin, with its peripheries: Central Europe and Scandinavia to the north and the margins of the Sahara Desert and the Fertile Crescent to the south and the east. AUTHORS: Fernando López Sánchez is currently Lecturer at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is both an ancient historian and a numismatist interested in Greek, Roman and early medieval coinage. He has worked in several European universities and in different Numismatic Cabinets, among them in the British Museum and in the National Library of France. Marisa Bueno is Research Fellow at the Complutense University of Madrid. Her main research has focused on the study of cultural change derived from the processes of conquest, the Islamisation and its impact in the rural and urban spheres. David Martínez Chico is Margarita Salas Fellowship at the University of Valencia, where he completed a PhD in Archaeology. His scientific production is interdisciplinary in nature and includes international publications in numismatics, epigraphy, archaeology and archaeometry with the aim of studying the economy of the Roman world. 120 b/w illustrations Full Product DetailsAuthor: Fernando López Sánchez , Marisa Bueno , David Martínez ChicoPublisher: Oxbow Books Imprint: Oxbow Books ISBN: 9781789259902ISBN 10: 1789259908 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 15 November 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of Contents1. Armies, Lybians and Coins: making philology in the camp José Ramón Pérez-Accino 2. Arcadian and Achaean soldiers in the Elean War (c. 402-400) Daniel Gómez Castro 3. Antigonid Mercenary Pay During the Third Macedonian War Nicholas Sekunda 4. Mercenary Recruitment and Settlement in Hellenistic Egypt. The Failure of the Kleruchy System J. Serrati 5. Military Settlements and Recruitment in the Herodian Royal Army Jonathan Roth 6. La dispersione della moneta “per la Siria” in Occidente: solo ragioni militari? Michele Asolati 7. What coins were the Roman soldiers carrying in battle? The numismatic evidence from the military layer in the forum of colonia Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa (Roman Dacia) Cristian Găzdac 8. Money and Ideas: Paying the Soldiers in the Second Century AD Matthew Ball 9. The Dura Europos Hoard with Gold Aurei David Martínez Chico & Alberto González García 10. Satisfying soldiers and discharging emperors: the military propaganda of the emperors Gallienus (253-268) and Postumus (260-269) through the Lugdunum/Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium’s Mint Coinage David Serrano Ordozgoiti 11. Recruits from Central-European Barbaricum in Pre-Roman and Roman Imperial Periods Aleksander Bursche, Bartosz Kontny 12. In diversa fugerunt Army and frontier defense in Late Antique Cyrenaica Ana Francisco de Heredero 13. The Export Ban and the Roman Army (350-450 AD) Alberto González García & David Martínez Chico 14. Ammianus Marcellinus on Discharge Followed by Return to Military Service David Woods 15. Gainas: from Goth to Roman General Hugh Elton 16. The employment of Alans in the Western Roman Army and their settlement in Roman Gaul Jeroen Wijnendaele 17. The recurring problem of Roman Veterans in the Migration Period of Scandinavia Svante Fischer 18. Pseudo-Imperial Armies and Pseudo Imperial Coins in Merovingian Gaul Fernando Lopez 19. The employment of mercenaries during the Gothic War: 535-553 Illas Ali Torrico 20. The Promised Land. Berbers and Arabs settlement Patterns in al-Andalus (711-750) Marisa BuenoReviewsAuthor InformationFernando Lopez Sanchez is currently Lecturer at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is both an ancient historian and a numismatist interested in Greek, Roman and early medieval coinage. He has worked in several European universities and in different Numismatic Cabinets, among them in the British Museum and in the National Library of France. Marisa Bueno is Research Fellow at the Complutense University of Madrid. Her main research has focused on the study of cultural change derived from the processes of conquest, the Islamisation and its impact in the rural and urban spheres. David Martinez Chico is Margarita Salas Fellowship at the University of Valencia, where he completed a PhD in Archaeology. His scientific production is interdisciplinary in nature and includes international publications in numismatics, epigraphy, archaeology and archaeometry with the aim of studying the economy of the Roman world. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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