The Ending of Roman BritainWhy 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 from archaeology rather than history is emphasized and leads to an explanation of the fall of Roman Britain. The author also offers some suggestions about the place of the post-Roman population in the formation of England. |
Contents
ONE The Structures of the State | 1 |
TWO The Continental Background | 13 |
THREE Britain in the Fourth Century | 33 |
380430 | 112 |
FIVE Britons in the Fifth Century | 136 |
Continuity and Change | 157 |
REFERENCES | 171 |
| 184 | |
| 195 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
administrative agricultural Alamanni Anglo-Saxon settlements archaeological evidence army artefacts barbarian basilica bishops British buildings burials Celtic cemetery church centres Christian civitas-capitals comitatenses comitatensian Constantine Constantine III Constantius Chlorus continuity decline defences diocese distribution early Anglo-Saxon early fifth century economic emperor ending of Roman excavations farmsteads fifth century fine-ware foederati forts fourth century fourth-century Britain frontier Gallic Empire Germanic Gildas Hadrian’s Wall hierarchy hoards House of Theodosius imperial industries Jones A.H.M. late Roman Britain late Roman Gaul late Roman period later Magnentius mediaeval military mosaics northern Gaul Notitia overall pagan population post-Roman pottery Poundbury praetorian prefect provinces Rhine Roman empire Roman Gaul romanised Romano-British rural settlement rural sites Saxon Shore Saxon Shore fort second century seen sequence Silchester silver social sources strip-buildings structures suggests taxation temple Theodosius third century town houses Trier troops types urban Valentinian Verulamium villas wares Wroxeter