A History of Roman Britain

Author: Peter Salway
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780192801388
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 612

Book Description
'One could not ask for a more meticulous or scholarly assessment of what Britain meant to the Romans, or Rome to Britons, than Peter Salway's Monumental Study' Frederick Raphael, Sunday Times From the invasions of Julius Caesar to the unexpected end of Roman rule in the early fifth century AD and the subsequent collapse of society in Britain, this book is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of Roman Britain ever published for the general reader. Peter Salway's narrative takes into account the latest research including exciting discoveries of recent years, and will be welcomed by anyone interested in Roman Britain.

Roman Britain

Author: Guy de la Bédoyère
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500771839
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499

Book Description
Superbly illustrated throughout, this illuminating account of Britain as a Roman province includes dramatic aerial views of Roman remains, reconstruction drawings and images of Roman villas, mosaics, coins, pottery and sculpture. The text has been updated to incorporate the latest research and recent discoveries, including the largest Roman coin hoard ever found in Britain, the thirty decapitated skeletons found in York and the magnificent Crosby Garrett parade helmet. Guy de la Bédoyère is one of the public faces of Romano-British history and archaeology through his many appearances on several television programmes and is the author of numerous books on the period.

Britannia

Author: Sheppard S. Frere
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432

Book Description

The Ending of Roman Britain

Author: A.S. Esmonde-Cleary
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134554931
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 213

Book Description
This book explains what Britain was like in the fourth century AD and how this can only be understood in the wider context of the western Roman Empire.

Roman Britain

Author: Peter Salway
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192851437
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 824

Book Description
'The toga was often to be seen among them': with these words the Roman Historian Tacitus describes the Britons adopting the Roman way of life at an early stage of their long history as Roman provincials.

The Real Lives of Roman Britain

Author: Guy de la Bédoyère
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300214030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are little disputed, and the archaeological remains of villas, forts, walls, and cities explain a great deal, we lack a clear sense of individual lives. This book is the first to infuse the story of Britannia with a beating heart, the first to describe in detail who its inhabitants were and their place in our history. A lifelong specialist in Romano-British history, Guy de la Bédoyère is the first to recover the period exclusively as a human experience. He focuses not on military campaigns and imperial politics but on individual, personal stories. Roman Britain is revealed as a place where the ambitious scramble for power and prestige, the devout seek solace and security through religion, men and women eke out existences in a provincial frontier land. De la Bédoyère introduces Fortunata the slave girl, Emeritus the frustrated centurion, the grieving father Quintus Corellius Fortis, and the brilliant metal worker Boduogenus, among numerous others. Through a wide array of records and artifacts, the author introduces the colorful cast of immigrants who arrived during the Roman era while offering an unusual glimpse of indigenous Britons, until now nearly invisible in histories of Roman Britain.

Roman Britain

Author: Peter Salway
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198712162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
Weaving together the results of archaeological investigation and historical scholarship in a readable, concise account, this text charts life in Roman Britain from the first Roman invasion to the final collapse of the Roman Empire, around 500 AD.

The Roman Government of Britain

Author: Anthony R. Birley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199252378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 547

Book Description
The Roman Government of Britain contains biographical entries on the hundreds of known Romans who served in Britain from AD 43 to 409. Evidence for imperial visits is discussed, and the Roman career-structure is explained. All the ancient evidence is quoted in full and translated, making this book the fullest available collection of sources for Britain under Roman rule.

Defying Rome

Author: Guy De la Bédoyère
Publisher: Tempus Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780752444406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Rome's power was under constant challenge. Nowhere was this truer than in Britain, Rome's remotest and most recalcitrant province. From the beginning to the end, a succession of idealists, chancers and reactionaries fomented dissent and rebellion. This book covers eleven rebellions and explains why Britain was a hot-bed of dissent.

The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain

Author: Neil Faulkner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780752428956
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Why did Rome abandon Britain in the early 5th century? According to Neil Faulkner, the centralized, military-bureaucratic state, governed by a class of super-rich landlords and apparatchiks, had siphoned wealth out of the province, with the result that the towns declined and the countryside was depressed. When the army withdrew to defend the imperial heartlands, the remaining Romano-British elite succumbed to a combination of warlord power, barbarian attack, and popular revolt.