AWA155 - What effect did Christianity have on Roman military practices and those of their opponents?

Ancient Warfare Podcast

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Society & Culture, Greece, Warfare, Ancient, Rome, History, Military

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🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Patron of the podcast Louis asks, what were the impacts of the introduction and subsequent spread of Christianity on the Roman military's practices and that of its opponents? Were there any improvements in the treatment of the defeated, taking into account that most barbarians were also christians although of a different denomination? Or maybe changes in the way discipline was handled could be attributed to the new religious practices.

Murray mulls this one over.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of ancient warfare answers.
0:03.7	My name is Jasper Ortoges.
0:05.1	I'm the editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine and with me is Murray Don, as always, who is the assistant editor.
0:10.7	Hello, Murray.
0:11.2	I don't think people can see you waving on there.
0:12.8	Oh, really?
0:13.4	I waved for no reason.
0:14.5	Oh, well, well, they can hear the wave.
0:16.7	No, maybe not.
0:17.5	Maybe not.
0:18.1	You have to wave really, really, really hard. Yeah, yeah.
0:24.3	That's physics, and that's what we don't do here.
0:26.3	We should probably.
0:27.8	A whole different thing.
0:31.8	Today we're here to answer another listener's question.
0:33.2	We have Lewis's question.
0:36.3	And you see the patron, Murray?
0:36.7	I don't know.
0:37.8	Yes, he is.
0:39.4	Ah, excellent.
0:40.1	Excellent.
0:42.6	You should all be patrons, of course,
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