obviously military has been a huge source of practices of discipline. it seems like this flavor or micro-managing discipline though only really become huge and developed round time of frederick the great and napoleon
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What's a specific example of something relevant I'm likely to be mistaken about by reading Gibbon?
Oh boy. Gibbon's argument about Christianity leading to the fall of the empire is a mess and not taken seriously by historians. His moralizing discussion of civic virtue is likewise the result of an overly credulous reading of the sources.
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Gibbon seems blissfully unaware that the Romans had been complaining about the decline of their civic morals since the days of Cato the Elder during the Middle Republic some 650 years before the empire fell and instead takes them all at their word.
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His understanding of the late Roman army and the place of the Foederati in it is, as you'd expect, centuries out of date. Archaeology has done a lot to change our understanding of some of these institutions and their changes, but by virtue of writing before...
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