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Routledge
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Routledge
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Why did Roman Britain collapse? What sort of society succeeded it? How did the Anglo-Saxons take over? And how far is the traditional view of a massacre of the native population a product of biased historical sources? This text explores what Britain was like in the 4th-century AD and looks at how this can be understood when placed in the wider context of the western Roman Empire. Information won... Read more
Acknowledgements, List of illustrations, Preface, Introduction, 1 The Structures of the State, 2 The Continental Background, 3 Britain in the Fourth Century, 4 The Passing of Roman Britain: 380–430, 5 Britons in the Fifth Century, 6 Postscript: Continuity and Change, References, Bibliography, Index
Biography
A.S. Esmonde-Cleary
