The late Roman soldier: A degenerate and inferior shadow of his former self. Or was he?

1 year ago
135

🔴 YOU WANT TO SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL? 🔴
🤗 Join our Patreon community: https://www.patreon.com/Maiorianus

🤗 One-Time Donation?
- PayPal: https://paypal.me/Maiorianus
- Bitcoin: bc1qv4lsfsplvfecrrgvmfclhga28we7mvh9563xdj
🔗 Share the video with anyone who might be interested (it helps a ton!)
👍 Subscribe to our videos FOR FREE!

📚 My favorite novel about the late Roman Empire, "Julian" by Gore Vidal: https://amzn.to/3mZwOdJ

📚 BEST BOOKS ON ROMAN HISTORY: 📚
1. "History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages" by Ferdinand Gregorovius https://amzn.to/3yOvjEd
2. "Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308" by Richard Krautheimer https://amzn.to/3yyChgp
3. "Rome: An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present" by Rabun Taylor https://amzn.to/322ClsZ
These are all excellent books if you are like me, absolutely fascinated by the transition of Rome from late antiquity to the early medieval period.

📚 One of our favorite books about the Fall of the Roman Empire, "The Fall of Rome" by Bryan Ward-Perkins: https://amzn.to/3FXeDNg

🎦 FILMING EQUIPMENT WE USE: 🎦
Webcam: https://amzn.to/3yFSFvu
Microphone: https://amzn.to/3e2ZFsW

Disclosures: Some links in the description are affiliate links which means that if you purchase something by clicking on one of them, your host Sebastian will receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. In this way you will be supporting the channel to improve the video production quality at no extra cost to you.
📬 Contact us: maiorianus.sebastian@gmail.com

Was the late Roman soldier really so degenerate and inferior compared to the Legionary of the late Roman Republic and the early to mid Roman Empire? Was the equipment in the late Roman Empire really so inferior, and the discipline really so declined as compared to the discipline of the legionary of earlier times? Well, friends of Roman history, I hope I will be able to show you, that even though on first glance it might look that way, in reality, the late roman soldier was as formidable a combattant as the early legionary.

Loading comments...