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dc.contributor.authorLavan, Myles Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-29T10:30:02Z
dc.date.available2019-07-29T10:30:02Z
dc.date.issued2019-11
dc.identifier249994570
dc.identifier11b6b897-4c0e-442b-b07a-b8c4f13cf0e1
dc.identifier85069713327
dc.identifier000588387900003
dc.identifier.citationLavan , M P 2019 , ' The army and the spread of Roman citizenship ' , Journal of Roman Studies , vol. 109 , pp. 27-69 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0075435819000662en
dc.identifier.issn0075-4358
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-8290-7893/work/60195929
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/18193
dc.descriptionThe author acknowledges The Leverhulme Trust and the Arts and Humanities Research Council for Research Fellowships that funded this research.en
dc.description.abstractThis paper draws on recent advances in our knowledge (much of it owed to the proliferation of military diplomas) and a new analytical method to quantify the number of soldiers and their children who received Roman citizenship between 14 and 212 c.e. Although significant uncertainties remain, these can be quantified and turn out to be small relative to the overall scale of enfranchisement. The paper begins by reviewing what is known about grants of citizenship to soldiers, with particular attention to the remaining uncertainties, before presenting a quantitative model of the phenomenon. The total number of beneficiaries was somewhere in the region 0.9–1.6 million — significantly lower than previous estimates have suggested. It also emerges that the rate of enfranchisement varied substantially over time, in line with significant changes in manpower, length of service (and hence the number of recruits and discharged veterans) and the rate of family formation among soldiers. The Supplementary Material available online (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0075435819000662) contains a database of military diplomas (Supplementary Appendix 1), a mathematical model of enfranchisement implemented in MS Excel (Supplementary Appendix 2), a description of the model (Supplementary Appendix 3A) and a derivation of the model of attrition across service cohorts in Fig. 6 (Supplementary Appendix 3B).
dc.format.extent43
dc.format.extent1492333
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Roman Studiesen
dc.subjectRoman armyen
dc.subjectRoman citizenshipen
dc.subjectDemographyen
dc.subjectAuxiliaen
dc.subjectUncertaintyen
dc.subjectQuantificationen
dc.subjectD051 Ancient Historyen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject.lccD051en
dc.titleThe army and the spread of Roman citizenshipen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorArts and Humanities Research Councilen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Classicsen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for the Literatures of the Roman Empireen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Legal and Constitutional Researchen
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0075435819000662
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2019-07-24
dc.identifier.grantnumberAH/P004571/1en


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