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

Contents

The Main Manuscripts Containing the Notitia Dignitatum

Introduction

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

2. Document and Transmission History 

Spätantike Schriftlichkeit und neuzeitliche Verschiebung. Zur Überlieferung und zum Kürzungssystem der Notitia Dignitatum – Kirsten Wallenwein

The Codex Spirensis and the Use of Roman Geographical and ‘Administrative’ Documents in the Early Medieval West – Charles Mériaux

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 römischen Kartographie – Silke Diederich

3. Illustrations

The Illustrations in the Notitia Dignitatum – Stephen Johnson

Largitiones. Die Originale der Spätantike 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

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 für die Listen der Limitantruppen am Beispiel der norisch-pannonischen Donaudukate.Mit einem Blick auf die Militärschematismen der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie – Hannsjörg 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

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 Ivanišević and Ivan Bugarski

6. Administration and Structure

Die militärischen Abteilungen des Grenzheeres in der Notitia Dignitatum – Michael Zerjadtke

Hierarchy and Administrative Geography in the Laterculus Veronensis and the Notitia Dignitatum – Daniëlle 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

7. Conclusion

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

8. Bibliography

Bibliography

About the Author

Marko Jelusić studied at Göttingen (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.