Janniard, je m'en rends compte en me replongeant à l'instant dans ses publications les plus récentes sur academia.edu, a rédigé plusieurs articles de
The Encyclopedia of the Roman Army publiée en 2015 au Royaume-Uni sous la direction de Le Bohec.
Il a consacré je vois un article aux Limitanei dont nous parlions un peu plus haut avec Pédro.
L'article est disponible sur academia.edu
https://www.academia.edu/26843830/Limitanei_in_Y._Le_Bohec_dir._The_Encyclopedia_of_the_Roman_Army_Chichester_2015 *
Je me suis créé un compte sur academia.edu il y a quelques années (pas besoin d'être universitaire). C'est une source documentaire très utile sur les publications récentes.
En croisant cette ressource avec les milliers de documents disponibles sur Persée, pour les publications plus datées, ça permet de cibler précisément ses recherches, via les bibliographies par exemple.
*Extrait (page 2):
For a long time, a literal reading of the documentary sources led scholars to think that limitanei were a territorial militia made up of peasant soldiers of little value, a notion belied by their military exploits, their indisputable status as per-manent soldiers and the transfer of some of their corps to the comitatenses, with the title pseudo-comitatenses. Some imperial constitutions of the 5th and the 6th centuries seem to indicate the existence of fields situated in the jurisdiction of the fort and whose property was to become exclusively that of the limitanei, at no cost. It is probable that these estates were initially granted to the veterans from limitanei units as discharge bonuses, before laws on hereditary service ensured their staying within the local military environment.
The coincidence of hereditary service for the sons of limitanei and of property of the limitanei on the territories of the camp may have encouraged, in civilian opinion, the fiction of a supposedly essential link between the soldiers’ real estates and their military obligations : this was a story that the state promoted in its constitutions for political and economic purposes, while making sure that these troops were themselves dedicated exclusively to military activities (Cod. Iust. 12.35.15–16).
Thus these estates were never related to service obligation in the regular army, which always remained personal, and it is important to distinguish the property from the running of the estate, which was not undertaken by the soldiers themselves. The central authori-ties did not expect limitanei to provide for all their own needs through the produce of their properties, nor were these lands supposed to replace their pay: thus limitanei continued to receive financial allocations, equipment and sup-plies, or annonae, from the state throughout the 5th and 6th centuries (P.Ryl . IV 609).
In parallel, some fields of the imperial estates, fundi limitotrophi, were even specifically earmarked for the maintenance of the garrisons on the limites (Cod. Theod. 5.12.2). Thus limitanei, better integrated into their economic environment, benefited from the commutation of their annonae into money at an early stage (Cod. Theod . 7.4.14), which differ-entiated them from the comitatenses, from whom they were further distinguished by their conditions of service and of discharge: in particular, the imperial constitutions reveal schemes of exemption from taxes that were less generous for limitanei ( Cod. Theod . 7.13.7.3)