The following primary sources are available in English translation and provide insight into the topics discussed in this chapter:

On the late Roman army and everyday life, see especially A. D. Lee, War in Late Antiquity. A Social History (London, 2007). There are many excellent general studies on late ancient warfare. Readers should begin with the essays in War and Warfare in Late Antiquity. 2 vols., ed. N. Christie and A. Sarantis (Leiden, 2013) and The Cambridge Ancient History of Greek and Roman Warfare, Vol. 2: Rome from the Late Republic to the Late Empire, ed. P. Sabin, H. von Wiess, and M. Whitby (Cambridge, 2007). For introductions to the late Roman legal system, see A. H. M. Jones, The Later Roman Empire (Baltimore, MD, 1964) and J. Harries, Law and Empire in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 1999). For the annona systems, see A. J. B. Sirks, Food for Rome: The Legal Structure of the Transportation and Processing of Supplies for the Imperial Distributions in Rome and Constantinople (Amsterdam, 1991). On Roman roadways and the cursus publicus, see L. Casson, Travel in the Ancient World (Baltimore, MD, 1994), and for a recent reappraisal of the Peutinger Map as imperial propaganda, see R. Talbot, Rome’s World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered (Cambridge, 2010).