A questão da Innovatio nos manuais militares romanos tardo antigos: relendo o Compêndio da arte militar de Vegécio e a obra sobre os assuntos militares (séc. IV d.C.)
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2021-11-25
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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This dissertation presents an analysis of two works – De Rebus Bellicis and Epitoma Rei Militaris
by using a comparative approach. The starting point for such analysis is the contextualization
of historiographical practice and the changes in the field of Military History that took place in
the last decades, followed by the presentation of the process of definition of the object of study,
its problems and the hypotheses that guided this research. After that, there is a study on the
transformations in the Roman army between the 3rd century BCE and the 4th century CE, based
on some specific episodes (snapshots). Then, the study focuses on the second half of the 4th
century CE, more precisely between the years 335 and 395 CE, a period which allows the exam
of delicate military and political issues which took place between the rise of Julian and the death
of Theodosius I; this period is particularly relevant because it is directly related to the production
of the two military manuals that are the main object of study in this work. Before proceeding
with the analysis of the two texts, there is a preliminary review of the history of the documents,
considering biographical information about the authors and about the time of production of the
texts, with the aim of presenting these military manuals as cultural artifacts and examining
questions related to the definition, textual tradition and methodological limits. The comparative
study of De Rebus Bellicis and Epitoma Rei Militaris proposed here adopts as parameter the
conception of temporal order presented by these military manuals. From historical
consciousness to the idea of a temporal breach in a passatist historicity regime, it compares the
innouationes found in both military manuals, using as references for the analysis the
construction of the idea of present of present things, the present of past things and the present
of future things in both texts. The elaboration of crisis, its origin (and recurrence) and the
confrontation between the magnitudo ingenii and the consuetudines antiquae show the
convergences and divergences in the projects of the two authors and offer an interesting key
for the understanding of the second half of the 4th century CE. From the theorical and
methodological point of view, such comparative approach intends to widen the possibilities of
analysis of texts belonging to the tradition of ancient military manuals.
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TAVARES, W. J. B. A questão da Innovatio nos manuais militares romanos tardo antigos: relendo o Compêndio da arte militar de Vegécio e a obra sobre os assuntos militares (séc. IV d.C.). 2021. 372 f. Tese (Doutorado em História) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2021.