The Roman Government of Britain
Title | The Roman Government of Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony R. Birley |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 547 |
Release | 2005-09-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199252378 |
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.
The Roman Government of Britain
Title | The Roman Government of Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Birley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 532 |
Release | 2005 |
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"This work contains biographical entries for all the Roman higher officials who served in Britain from A.D. 43 to c. 409. It is a completely revised edition of the author's The Fasti of Roman Britain (1981), taking account both of newly discovered governors, legionary legates and tribunes, procurators, and prefects of the fleet, and of new information about the origin, family, and career of previously known officials. In each entry the evidence, literary and epigraphic, is quoted in full and - unlike in the first edition - translated. A further change is that the evidence for imperial visits to Britain or involvement in the island's affairs is also quoted and discussed. There are also sections on local government, the governors' staff, the senatorial and procuratorial career in the principate, and the late Roman civil and military system. The subdivisions, into Upper and Lower Britain, then into four, and finally five, provinces are discussed. Thus the book provides a narrative history of Roman Britain, with a full conspectus of the literary, epigraphic, and numismatic sources. Further, the analysis of the background and careers of hundreds of individuals who served in Britain sheds light on the way the Roman Empire worked during a period of over 360 years."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Britain and the Roman Empire
Title | Britain and the Roman Empire PDF eBook |
Author | John Cecil Mann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
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The papers in this volume cover a range of topics, including aspects of the Roman army in the imperial period, the operations of that army in Britain, and the development of the cities which were the chief vehicle of Roman civilization. They aim to provide solutions to the problems raised.
An Imperial Possession
Title | An Imperial Possession PDF eBook |
Author | David Mattingly |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 684 |
Release | 2008-05-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1101160403 |
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 Middle Ages Revisited
Title | The Middle Ages Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Del Mar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | Great Britain |
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The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain
Title | The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Faulkner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN | 9780752428956 |
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.
Cursus Publicus
Title | Cursus Publicus PDF eBook |
Author | E. W. Black |
Publisher | British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Architecture |
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This book describes and discusses the mansiones of Roman Britain, relating the posts of cursus publicus to the development of roadside settlements. Black makes a detailed examination of particular examples of mansiones through the first to fourth centuries, and in an appendix gives a re-assessment of the Antonine Itinerary, a prime source for the names and locations of roadside settlements.