An edition of The Roman era
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The Roman era
the British Isles, 55 BC-AD 410
by Peter Salway
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The Roman era: the British Isles, 55 BC-AD 410
2002, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1 The transformation of Britain: from 55 BC to AD 61 11
T W. Potter
The complex societies of the prehistoric British Isles 12
Julius Caesar 13
Rome's impact on Britain before the Claudian Conquest 15
Rome's intentions towards Britain 24
The Claudian invasion 25
Establishment of military control 28
Caratacus and Cartimandua 30
Neronian Britain 32
Boudicca 33
2 A second start: from the defeat of Boudicca
to the third century 39
Michael Fulford
The sources 40
After Boudicca 41
The Flavian advance 45
Withdrawal from Scotland 45
Urban development 47
Infrastructure and the economy 53
Military consolidation 56
Economic integration 58
Civic projects and their completion 61
Smaller towns and villages 63
The wealth of the province 64
Antonine Scotland 65
Mutiny, civil war, and their aftermath 68
Town defences and their context 69
Peace and retrenchment 69
Urban change 71
Military developments on the coasts of the South and East 72
The end of the third century 73
3 The fourth century and beyond 75
P J. Casey
Fourth-century Britain 76
The Tetrarchy 78
Regionalism 80
The army 81
Constantinian Britain 82
Civil war and its aftermath 85
The 'Barbarian Conspiracy' 87
Magnus Maximus 89
Britain at the end of the fourth century 92
Religion 94
The end of Roman rule 96
4 Culture and social relations in the Roman province 107
Janet Huskinson
Perceptions of Roman Britain 108
Sources log09
Turning Britain into 'the form of a province' 1l
Cultural change: acceptance and resistance 116
Communities on the northern frontier 117
Cultural values 125
Fourth-century villas 127
Mosaics 129
Wall-painting and sculpture 136
Conclusion 137
5 The human impact on the landscape: agriculture,
settlement, industry, infrastructure 141
Richard Hingley and David Miles
The landscape 142
The nature of environmental evidence 147
Woodland 148
Alluvium and colluvium 148
Arable cultivation 149
Crops 150
The population: how many people lived in Roman Britain? 152
The agricultural landscape 155
Settlement patterns and settlement types 156
Industry and the landscape 164
The sacred landscape 167
The end of the Roman interlude 169
6 The edge of the world: the imperial frontier and beyond 173
David J. Breeze
Ancient geography 174
The location of the frontier 175
The causes of war 176
The nature of the frontier 178
Frontier regulations 179
Treaties 180
The army 183
Supplies 185
The native people and their settlements 187
The impact of Rome 189
Religion 193
Artefacts beyond the frontier 194
Rome as a neighbour 196
The reason for the location of the frontier 198
Conclusion 199
Conclusion 203
Peter Salway
Britain and Rome 203
The Conquest and 'Romanization' 205
Some consequences of absorption into the empire 207
Roman views of Britain and the Britons 208
The army 212
The emperor in person 213
Rules, documents, and literacy 218
Slave and free 221
Decision-making and its location 223
Later Roman Britain 224
The Church 226
Economic change 229
The 'end' of Roman Britain 231
Further reading 237
Chronology 241
List of Roman Emperors 249
Maps 253
Index 269.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-240) and index.
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