Exilium et milites: some issues about the impact of exile within the Roman army at the dawn of the seventh century

Abstract

The principal purpose of this contribution is to analyze, from a combined historical-juridical perspective, the incidence of exilium within the Roman Army during a particular moment both very convulsive and of a growing importance of it: the final decades of the sixth century and the first one of the seventh; with the aim of trying to consider whether there was a direct cause-effect relationship between both phenomena..