Britain after Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 - 1070 (Penguin History of Britain, Band 2).

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Beilage / supplement: Rezension / review - The enormous hoard of beautiful gold objects found in a field in Staffordshire in 2009 has focused huge attention on the mysterious world of seventh- and eighthcentury Britain. Clearly the product of a sophisticated, wealthy, highly militarized society, the objects raise innumerable questions about how we are to understand the people who once walked across the same landscape we inhabit, but who left such a slight record of their presence. -- Britain after Rome stitches together a wealth of research and imaginative engagement to bring us as close as we can hope to get to the tumultuous centuries between the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West and the arrival of the Normans nearly seven centuries later. After the implosion of the Romano-British economy, all towns in Britain were abandoned, and Christianity, the religion of the Empire, disappeared from much of Britain. At the same time, in the aftermath of collapse, immigrants and invaders came to settle across Britain. It can be too easily assumed that life in Britain after Rome was intolerable � and yet this is the world in which Britain�s vernacular languages and political arrangements were forged, many of today�s villages and towns were founded, and the social and economic relations between monks, lords and peasants came into being. There are tantalizing glimpses in this book of the surprising and resilient peoples and communities who remade Britain in the centuries after Rome�s collapse, taken principally from the study of material excavated from their cemeteries and settlements. -- The result of a decade of work, Robin Fleming�s major new addition to the Penguin History of Britain could not be more opportune. A richly enjoyable, varied and surprising book, Britain after Rome allows its readers to see Britain�s history in a quite new light. ISBN 9780713990645