Obsessio montis Badonici. Britania ante las invasiones bárbaras: ¿pervivencia o abandono de los modelos del ejército romano tardío?

• Sancho Gómez, Miguel Pablo ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Católica San Antonio

     Universidad Católica San Antonio

     Murcia, España

     
• Localización: Revista Universitaria de Historia Militar, ISSN-e 2254-6111, Vol. 6, Nº. 12, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Arquitectura e instituciones militares: política, cultura y sociedad), págs. 128-148
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Obsessio montis Badonici. Britain before the Barbarian Invasions:: Survival or Abandonment of the Models of the Late Roman Army?
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  • español

    Este trabajo se centra en un período clave de la historia británica, al mismo tiempo oscuro y dificultoso: el fin de la Britania romana y la formación de los diferentes estados sucesores, incluyendo en ellos a los recién llegados pueblos germánicos que serían un factor decisivo en el posterior devenir de las islas. Desde el punto de vista de la historia militar, los problemas se multiplican, pues el período empieza en los años 406-411 con los restos del ejército imperial aún presentes y termina alrededor del año 500 con una serie de reinos establecidos, tanto célticos y/o britano-romanos como anglosajones, fuertemente imbuidos de cultura heroica y en un estado de guerra casi permanente. Las clientelas personales de guerreros tomaron el control de la situación y las legiones pasaron a ser cosa del pasado. Trataremos de establecer una serie de pautas para analizar estos complicados fenómenos, especialmente desde la perspectiva de la historia militar

  • English

    This work focuses on a key period of British history, both obscure and difficult: the end of Roman Britain and the formation of different successor states, including the newly arrived Germanic peoples who would be a decisive factor in the subsequent development of the island. From the point of view of military history, the problems multiply, for the period begins in AD 406-411 with the remains of the imperial army still present and ends around AD 500 with a series of established kingdoms, both Celtic and Anglo-Saxon, heavily imbued with heroic culture and in an almost permanent state of war. We are talking about the “Dark Ages”, now commonly called Sub-Roman Britain. The personal clienteles of warriors took control of the situation at the mid of the Fifth-Century and the classic legions became something of the past. We will try to establish some historical guidelines to analyze these complicated phenomena, especially from the perspective of war history.

    This period saw as well the emergence of Arthur, another key figure of British history, still hotly debated today. Trying to avoid the much sterile polemic, we will try to trace some link between Roman warfare and the remains of the Imperial rule throughout this complicated period in order to show the state of the historical processes that framed the evolution of the Late Roman World to become the early medieval one. Hypothesis will focus in the military developments of the age and the transformation of the former Roman regular professional army into the so-called aristocratic and heroic warbands, paying attention to the possible Roman remains on the Arthurian warfare.

    The so-called “Age of Tyrants” and the “land Fertile on Tyrants” is treated too, with a brief scheme concerning the threats featuring in the Military Anarchy, the Third Century Crisis and the overall Barbarian onslaught as the catalyzers of the proclamation of tyrants in Britain.