i want to read sources about what military training like was in sparta, because my hunch is that it's hella disciplined in the standard usage of the word, but very distinctly NOT foucaults micro-managy discicpline
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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.
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His understanding of the late Roman army and the place of the Foederati in it is, as you'd expect, centuries out of date.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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...the entire discipline of archaeology existed, Gibbon is robbed of the ability to take advantage of it. That also robs him of the ability to make any sense of the economic decline of the empire because, relying on the literary sources, he doesn't know when it happened...
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