Romans in Britain

Name/Title

Romans in Britain

Description

Romans in Britain examines why the Roman occupation of Britain was the longest colonial war in history. The book asks why did it happen at all - and reasons that the necessity for invasion was to prevent the growth of a strong league of Celtic States that were threatening to destabilise occupied Gaul. Documented and illustrated this is an account of the facts as we know them, and a consideration of how the Romans have influenced every aspect of our lives, architecture, food, language, law, and religion.

Category

Book
Books & Paper

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

books

Book Details

Author

Legg, Rodney

Publisher

Book Club Associates

Date Published

1983

Binding

Binding Type

Hardcover or Case Bound

Publication Language

English

Publication Subjects

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

ISBN

0434413305

Notes

275 Pages