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Roman Britain (The Pelican History of England, #1)

Ian Archibald Richmond

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Description:Roman Britain is the 1st volume of a consecutive guide to the development of English Society from the Roman invasion to the outbreak of WWI. Each volume is written by a specialist. Each decides what is significant. All seek to emphasize the sense of period. While some parallels are inevitable, the business of discovering comparison & conclusion, & of adapting the lessons of history, is left, for the most part, to the reader. This book provides a general picture of the Roman province of Britain during the period from AD 43 until the 5th century. It doesn't attempt to furnish a continuous historical account, for which neither the written sources nor the archeological material provide enough evidence. The nearest approach to this is in the description of the military subjugation & organization of the province, dealt with here in considerable detail in an attempt to relate it to general policy, & to give a closer account of its changes than is usually attempted. The towns are considered analytically, with emphasis on their social function in the several communities of which they were the centres, & upon their connexions both with the Roman state & the native tribe, & attention is given to the smaller centres both in civil & military areas. Religious cults, their buildings & their artistic expression are brought into relation with the provincial social order. Commerce & the countryside are the themes of other chapters, & the development of provincial resources in agriculture & raw products is described. The book is illustrated by 8 pages of plates. Dr Ian A. Richmond is professor of the Archeology of the Roman Empire at Oxford University. He was educated at Ruthin School & Corpus Christi College, Oxford, & was a Craven Fellow & Goldsmith's Senior Student of the University, becoming a lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast. He was also Director of the British School at Rome, where he wrote a standard work upon the Imperial City Wall. He's a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London & of the British Academy, a Royal Commissioner of Ancient Monuments to England & Scotland, & a Trustee of the Nat'l Museum of Antiquities of Scotland. He has excavated widely upon Hadrian's Wall & many other Romano-British military sites.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Roman Britain (The Pelican History of England, #1). To get started finding Roman Britain (The Pelican History of England, #1), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 1970

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Description: Roman Britain is the 1st volume of a consecutive guide to the development of English Society from the Roman invasion to the outbreak of WWI. Each volume is written by a specialist. Each decides what is significant. All seek to emphasize the sense of period. While some parallels are inevitable, the business of discovering comparison & conclusion, & of adapting the lessons of history, is left, for the most part, to the reader. This book provides a general picture of the Roman province of Britain during the period from AD 43 until the 5th century. It doesn't attempt to furnish a continuous historical account, for which neither the written sources nor the archeological material provide enough evidence. The nearest approach to this is in the description of the military subjugation & organization of the province, dealt with here in considerable detail in an attempt to relate it to general policy, & to give a closer account of its changes than is usually attempted. The towns are considered analytically, with emphasis on their social function in the several communities of which they were the centres, & upon their connexions both with the Roman state & the native tribe, & attention is given to the smaller centres both in civil & military areas. Religious cults, their buildings & their artistic expression are brought into relation with the provincial social order. Commerce & the countryside are the themes of other chapters, & the development of provincial resources in agriculture & raw products is described. The book is illustrated by 8 pages of plates. Dr Ian A. Richmond is professor of the Archeology of the Roman Empire at Oxford University. He was educated at Ruthin School & Corpus Christi College, Oxford, & was a Craven Fellow & Goldsmith's Senior Student of the University, becoming a lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast. He was also Director of the British School at Rome, where he wrote a standard work upon the Imperial City Wall. He's a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London & of the British Academy, a Royal Commissioner of Ancient Monuments to England & Scotland, & a Trustee of the Nat'l Museum of Antiquities of Scotland. He has excavated widely upon Hadrian's Wall & many other Romano-British military sites.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Roman Britain (The Pelican History of England, #1). To get started finding Roman Britain (The Pelican History of England, #1), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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