ROMANS IN BRITAIN
Written by Rodney Legg
Published by Heinemann
in 1983
ISBN: 0434413305
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- HISTORY (ROMAN)
- GREEK AND ROMAN CIVILISATION
ROMANS IN BRITAIN
Written by Rodney Legg.
Stock no. 1807872
1st.
1983.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0434413305. Dustwrapper spine faded.
Front cover
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