The evolution of the early Byzantine reinforcement system for the army by personnel (IV - beginning V century)
The early Byzantine recruitment system for the army took shape as a result of the Diocletianus' (283-305 years) and the Constantinus' I (306-337 years) reforms. Diocletianus implemented the conscriptio through all the empire, which mainly made landed gentry of the middle class responsible for it, and they had to deliver recruits for the army. Constantinus approved the principle of the hereditary millitary service, changed the veterans' sons into the one of the most important sourses for the army reinforcement. Nevertheless the provincials' unwillingness to serve in the army, made the government from the middle of the 60th years IVcentury increasingly to stake on the attraction of the foreign barbarians for the army. The reinforcement system of the regular army by the recruits-barbarians, which formed in the end of the IV century, was also in the first half of the V century. However the Gaina rebellion, and than the breach with Attila, who forbad to his nationals to serve in the Roman army (441 year) put an end to rash conversion of the East-Roman army into the home guard, which was consist of different barbarian tribe units at the head of their own leaders.