Dr Jonathan Coulston

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2612

Email

jcnc@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

S14

Location

Swallowgate

 

Research areas

Roman Army studies; Roman military equipment; Ancient warfare; Roman provincial archaeology; Trajan's Column; Roman art (especially stone sculpture); Roman architecture; The City of Rome; Hadrian's Wall; Asiatic steppe nomads

PhD supervision

• Alex Elliott
• Elaine Rankin

Selected publications

• All the emperor's men: Roman soldiers and barbarians on Trajan's column

  Coulston, J. C. N., 1 Apr 2026, Oxford: Oxbow. 224 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• 'Die Bewaffnung der spatromischen Armee'

  Coulston, J. C. N., 22 May 2020, Antike Welt. Zeitschrift fur Archaologie und Kulturgeschichte, 3.20, p. 19-21 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• 'RoMEC XVIIII: Cavalry in the Roman World'

  Coulston, J. C. N., 2020, Cavalry in the Roman World. Coulston, J. C. N. (ed.). Pewsey: The Armatura Press, p. viii-xvii 10 p. (Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 'The cavalry on Trajan's Column: a study in composition, content and sculptural intent'

  Coulston, J. C. N., 2020, Cavalry in the Roman World. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Roman Military Equipment Conference (RoMEC XVIIII). Coulston, J. (ed.). Pewsey: The Armatura Press, p. 257-292 35 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Cavalry in the Roman World: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Roman Military Equipment Conference

  Coulston, J. C. N., 2020, Pewsey: The Armatura Press. (Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies; vol. 19)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• La colonne trajane et l'armee romaine

  Coulston, J. C. N., 2018, L'armee de Rome. La puissance et la gloire. Schorle, K. (ed.). Milano: Silvana Editoriale, p. 10-19 10 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Sculpture

  Coulston, J. C. N., 1 Jan 2018, Hadrian's Wall at Wallsend. Bidwell, P. (ed.). South Shields: Arbeia Society, p. 169-170 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The Army in Imperial Rome

  Coulston, J. C. N., Aug 2018, A Companion to the City of Rome. Holleran, C. & Claridge, A. (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell, p. 173-195 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• ‘Archery’, ‘arms and armour, Roman and post-Roman’, ‘armies, barbarian’, ‘artillery’, ‘auxilia’, ‘Brigetio’, ‘bucellarii’, ‘bucellatum’, ‘Catalaunian Plains, battle of’, ‘cavalry, Roman and post-Roman’, ‘decorations, military’, ‘draconarii’, ‘equites singulares’, ‘iconography, military, Roman’, ‘infantry, Roman’, ‘labarum’, ‘laeti’, ‘lancearii’, ‘legions’, ‘Milvian Bridge, battle of’, ‘Notitia Dignitatum’, ‘numerus’, ‘praesentalis’, ‘Praetorian Guard’, ‘protectores’, ‘saddle’, ‘scholae palatinae’, ‘scribo’, ‘siege warfare’, ‘standards, military’, ‘tagma’, ‘vexillationes’, ‘warfare, Roman and post-Roman’

  Coulston, J. C. N., 2018, Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity. Nicholson, O. (ed.). Oxford, UK, and New York, USA: Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• Roman victory and barbarian defeat on the pedestal reliefs of Trajan’s Column

  Coulston, J., May 2017, Columna Traiani - Traianssäule: Siegesmonument und Kriegsbericht in Bildern. Mitthof, F. & Schörner, G. (eds.). Vienna: Holzhausen Verlag, p. 95-112 18 p. (TYCHE Sonderband; vol. 9).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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