| 词条 | Arther Ferrill |
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Arther Ferrill (born 1938),[1] now a professor emeritus of history at the University of Washington at Seattle,[2] is a respected expert on Ancient Rome and military history. He has written four books and is a regular contributor to The Quarterly Journal of Military History ({{ISSN|1040-5992}}) and other periodicals, as an author and in review of other authors. Life and workBorn in Enid, Oklahoma, Ferrill earned a B.A. at the University of Wichita (now Wichita State University) in 1960.[1] He went on to graduate study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received a masters in 1961 and a Ph.D. in 1964.[1] In The Fall of the Roman Empire: The Military Explanation (1998 {{ISBN|0-500-27495-9}}), Ferrill supports the claims of Vegetius, about increased "barbarisation" and "germanisation" helping to cause the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century AD. He asserts that allowing barbarians to settle within Rome's borders, to act as a buffer zone against other barbarians, created friction and led to a decrease in the size of the Roman Empire's Borders. He also states that the Germans were recruited in such large numbers by the Western empire that they in fact changed it from a Roman to a German culture. For example, field army units would not use their helmets, the pilum was replaced, and the standard of drill declined, leading to a lack of military skill within the Empire. Among his other works are:
References1. ^1 2 "Arther Ferrill." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2002. Retrieved via Biography in Context database, 2017-07-09. 2. ^McLemmee, Scott (September 27, 2002). "Rehabilitating Livia: By focusing on the biases of ancient historians, a scholar provides an antidote to old views of Roman rulers" (preview only; subscription required). The Chronicle of Higher Education. External links
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