Britain After Rome

Author: Robin Fleming
Publisher: Penguin Global
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488

Book Description
The enormous hoard of beautiful gold military objects found in 2009 in a field in Staffordshire has focused huge attention on the mysterious world of 7th and 8th century Britain. This book discusses the tumultuous centuries between the departure of the Roman legions and the arrival of Norman invaders nearly seven centuries later.

After Rome

Author: Morgan Llywelyn
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765331233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
Anarchy rules in Britannia as the Roman Empire collapses, and two men fight to build stable lives among the chaos.

Worlds of Arthur

Author: Guy Halsall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019965817X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394

Book Description
The story of King Arthur - probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary of medieval kings.

An Imperial Possession

Author: David Mattingly
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101160403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 709

Book Description
Part of the Penguin History of Britain series, An Imperial Possession is the first major narrative history of Roman Britain for a generation. David Mattingly draws on a wealth of new findings and knowledge to cut through the myths and misunderstandings that so commonly surround our beliefs about this period. From the rebellious chiefs and druids who led native British resistance, to the experiences of the Roman military leaders in this remote, dangerous outpost of Europe, this book explores the reality of life in occupied Britain within the context of the shifting fortunes of the Roman Empire.

The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE

Author: Robin Fleming
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812252446
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
"An examination of the transformations in lowland Britain's material culture over the course of the long fifth century CE during the late Roman regime and its end"--

Britain B.C.

Author: Francis Pryor
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568

Book Description
Based on new archaeological finds, this book introduces a novel rethinking of the whole of British history before the coming of the Romans. So many extraordinary archaeological discoveries (many of them involving the author) have been made since the early 1970s that our whole understanding of British prehistory needs to be updated. So far only the specialists have twigged on to these developments; now, Francis Pryor broadcasts them to a much wider, general audience. Aided by aerial photography, coastal erosion (which has helped expose such coastal sites as Seahenge) and new planning legislation which requires developers to excavate the land they build on, archaeologists have unearthed a far more sophisticated life among the Ancient Britons than has been previously supposed. Far from being the woaded barbarians of Roman propaganda, we Brits had our own religion, laws, crafts, arts, trade, farms, priesthood and royalty. And the Scots, English and Welsh were fundamentally one and the same people.

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.

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.

The Ruin of Roman Britain

Author: James Gerrard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107038634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365

Book Description
This book employs new archaeological and historical evidence to explain how and why Roman Britain became Anglo-Saxon England.

Celts, Romans, Britons

Author: Francesca Kaminski-Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198863071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
This book investigates the ways in which ideas associated with the Celtic and the Classical have been used to construct identities (national/ethnic/regional etc.) in Britain, from the period of the Roman conquest to the present day.