This is an in-depth re-assessment of the life of Magnus Maximus,
Roman Emperor ruling in the west from 383 to 388, drawn from
Classical sources and archaeology, which provides a very different
impression of his life to the one created by the post-Roman and
medieval British insular sources. While most historians tend to
dismiss Maximus as an ephemeral usurper, his time in the sun shows
every sign of having been a success. He cast a long shadow in
Britain, where he was originally proclaimed. Yet early non-Roman
sources, notably Gildas, condemn him for leaving the island bereft
of defences due to his usurpation. In contrast, subsequent writers
cast him as the progenitor of several British dynasties on the
frontiers, while the medieval Mabinogion story 'The Dream of Maxen
Wledig' presents him as an all-conquering figure of Romance who
allied himself with a powerful British dynasty and facilitated the
settlement of Brittany by the British. Following an introductory
account of Roman Britain, its troubles and imperial adventures from
Clodius Albinus in 193 to the end of the so-called 'barbarian
conspiracy' in 368, Maxwell Craven examines all the sources to show
how important the ardent Christian Maximus was to the settlement of
the British frontiers. It was his work that kept the British tribes
from being overwhelmed by Germanic invaders during the following
centuries. Because of Maximus, the last remnant of the Roman west -
Wales - remained unconquered until 1282, nine hundred years after
Maximus was proclaimed.
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