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ROMANS IN BRITAIN

by Rodney Legg

Published by Heinemann. 1st. 1983

Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos.

Dustwrapper spine faded.

ISBN: 0434413305
Stock no. 1807872

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Contents

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • The first two landings
  • Province of Britannia
  • Invasion gives way to insurrection
  • Rolling back the frontier
  • The palace on the south coast
  • Plants of the Roman garden
  • Housing, sex and food
  • Cult of the 'stiff and deformed' heads
  • Language, indigenous and introduced
  • Relics of literacy
  • The Romans build a wall
  • Temporary return to Scotland
  • The perpetual British war
  • An emperor carried the length of Britain
  • Usurping a province
  • Christian and pagan revivals
  • Count of the Saxon Shore
  • The barbarian conspiracy
  • Sub-Roman Britain
  • Index

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