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The Real Lives of Roman Britain (Paperback)
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The Real Lives of Roman Britain (Paperback)
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Loot Price R449
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An innovative, informative, and entertaining history of Roman
Britain told through the lives of individuals in all walks of life
The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is
dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are little
disputed, and the archaeological remains of villas, forts, walls,
and cities explain a great deal, we lack a clear sense of
individual lives. This book is the first to infuse the story of
Britannia with a beating heart, the first to describe in detail who
its inhabitants were and their place in our history. A lifelong
specialist in Romano-British history, Guy de la Bedoyere is the
first to recover the period exclusively as a human experience. He
focuses not on military campaigns and imperial politics but on
individual, personal stories. Roman Britain is revealed as a place
where the ambitious scramble for power and prestige, the devout
seek solace and security through religion, men and women eke out
existences in a provincial frontier land. De la Bedoyere introduces
Fortunata the slave girl, Emeritus the frustrated centurion, the
grieving father Quintus Corellius Fortis, and the brilliant metal
worker Boduogenus, among numerous others. Through a wide array of
records and artifacts, the author introduces the colorful cast of
immigrants who arrived during the Roman era while offering an
unusual glimpse of indigenous Britons, until now nearly invisible
in histories of Roman Britain.
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