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Hadrian's Wall - Creating Division (Hardcover)
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Hadrian's Wall - Creating Division (Hardcover)
Series: Archaeological Histories
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Over its venerable history, Hadrian’s Wall has had an undeniable
influence in shaping the British landscape, both literally and
figuratively. Once thought to be a soft border, recent research has
implicated it in the collapse of a farming civilisation centuries
in the making, and in fuelling an insurgency characterised by
violent upheaval. Examining the everyday impact of the Wall over
the three centuries it was in operation, Matthew Symonds sheds new
light on its underexplored human story by discussing how the
evidence speaks of a hard border scything through a previously open
landscape and bringing dramatic change in its wake. The Roman
soldiers posted to Hadrian’s Wall were overwhelmingly recruits
from the empire’s occupied territories, and for them the frontier
could be a place of fear and magic where supernatural protection
was invoked during spells of guard duty. Since antiquity, the Wall
has been exploited by powers craving the legitimacy that came with
being accepted as the heirs of Rome: it helped forge notions of
English and Scottish nationhood, and even provided a model of
selfless cultural collaboration when the British Empire needed
reassurance. It has also inspired creatives for centuries,
appearing in a more or less recognisable guise in works ranging
from Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill to George R. R.
Martin’s A Game of Thrones. Combining an archaeological analysis
of the monument itself and an examination of its rich legacy and
contemporary relevance, this volume presents a reliable, modern
perspective on the Wall.
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