Rome was the law-giver for much of the modern world. She was also the greatest military power of antiquity, operating her military organization with remarkable efficiency and effectiveness throughout most of the then-known world. In view of the importance of both the legal and military aspects of the Roman Empire, an account of their combination in a system of disciplinary control for the Roman armies is of considerable significance to historians in both fields—and, in fact, to scholars in general. In Roman Military Law, C. E. Brand describes this system of control.     Since a characterization of such a system can be made most meaningful only against a background of Roman constitutional government and in the light of ideologies current at the time, Brand follows his initial “Note on Sources” with a sketch of the contemporary Roman scene. This first section includes a discussion of the Roman constitution and an examination of Roman criminal law.            The history of Rome, as a republic, principate, and empire, extended over a period of a thousand years, so any attempt to represent a generalized picture must be essentially a matter of extraction and condensation from the voluminous literature of the whole era. Nevertheless, from the fantastic evolution that is the history of Rome, Brand has been able to construct a more or less static historical mosaic that may be considered typically “Roman.” This comes into sharpest focus during the period of the Punic Wars, when the city and its people were most intensely Roman. The picture of the Roman armies is set into this basic framework, in chapters dealing with military organization, disciplinary organization, religion and discipline, and offenses and punishments.     The final section of the book considers briefly the vast changes in Roman institutions that came about under the armies of the Empire, and then concludes with the Latin text and an English translation of the only known code of Roman military justice, promulgated sometime during the later Empire, preserved in Byzantine literature, and handed down to medieval times in Latin translations of Byzantine Greek law, which it has heretofore been confused.

Roman Military Law

History

Brand,Max

Brand, C. F.

Ancient Civilizations

University of Texas Press

Max Brand is generally regarded as the author of superior westerns like his Destry Rides Again, but Brand also wrote the Dr. Kildare series and numerous detective stories as well. St. Martin's Press is delighted to be publishing Murder Me!, a 1937 Brand gem that has never before appeared in book form. Featuring the NYPD Team of Campbell and O'Rourke, and set in a very vivid Manhattan, Murder Me! starts with a bang as soldier of fortune Willett is approached by a millionaire who asks him to arrange a homicide - the man's own murder.

Murder Me!

Literature & Fiction

United States

St Martins Pr

Dr Kildares Trial

Ballantine Books

Black Jack, Mar Brand (Frrederick Faust), Dodd Mead, 1970 1st (book), 250 pages. Description: Book; Blue boards with black lettering to spine, publisher's Silver Star Western logo and design on front cover, design wraps to the spine, plain endpapers. Dust jacket; Blue with white lettering and gun fighter design on front panel that wraps to the spine, author's bio on back panel, not price clipped.

Black Jack

Action & Adventure

Dodd, Mead

A Novel of Adventure. A quest for a fabulous treasure. The ordeal of Sam Culver. He gets mugged and shanghaied aboard the ship Spindrift. A race for exquisite pearls belonging to a man who is about to die.

The luck of the Spindrift;

Genre Fiction

Cheyenne gold (Silver star westerns)

Book is used and has been withdrawn from service from a Library. Book has a Library Binding and the usual Library Stamps, Stickers, Card Holder, Library Markings. May or May Not have a Dust Jacket.

Drifter's vengeance (Silver star westerns)

Contemporary

A white youth raised by the Cheyenne Indians is forced to prove his courage after he is branded a coward

War Party (Silver Star Western)

Faust, Frederick Schiller

Hardcover in dust jacket, FIRST Dodd, Mead edition, by Max Brand, hardcover. Smooth yellow cloth binding. Jacket design by Mort Kunstler. No date, 1970s reprint of a novel first published in 1934. From the dj flap: "Major Arthur Marston had marked Rusty Sabin as his enemy. The red-haired white leader of the Cheyennes owned White Horse, the great stallion, and he had won the love of Maisry Lester. The prettiest girl and the swiftest horse on the plains---these the Major thought should belong to him, not to Rusty, the man the Indians called Red Hawk. Then Rusty forced him to release a prisoner who had once saved Rusty's life. Enraged by this humiliation, Marston led his troops out across the prairie, determined to destroy his enemy."

Frontier feud (Silver star westerns)

Gunman's Reckoning

Gunman's Reckoning is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Max Brand is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Max Brand then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Brand,Max. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Brand,Max