The BritonsJohn Wiley & Sons, 15 apr. 2008 - 352 sidor This book provides a fascinating and unique history of the Britons from the late Iron Age to the late Middle Ages. It also discusses the revivals of interest in British culture and myth over the centuries, from Renaissance antiquarians to modern day Druids.
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Part I Romans and Britons | 9 |
Part II The Brittonic Age | 73 |
Part III A People Divided | 139 |
Part IV Conquest Survival and Revival | 225 |
Chronology of Events | 289 |
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Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Annales Cambriae archaeological archaeologists Arthur Arthurian barbarians bards battle Bede bishop Boudica Brit British Church British king British kingdom Britons Brittany Brittonic Age burials Caesar campaigns Caratacus Catuvellauni Celtic cemetery chapter Christian Chronicle conquest Constantine Cornish Cornwall culture Cunobelinus David’s Davies death Deheubarth Druids Dumnonia Dumville Dyfed early medieval Elmet emperor English evidence excavations Excidio forts fourth century Gallic Gaul Geoffrey Gerald Gildas Gildas’s Glyn Dw^r Gododdin Gruffydd Gwynedd Higham hill-forts Historia Brittonum Hywel Ireland Irish Iron Age island Jones land language late fifth Late Roman later Latin Llywelyn Maximus military monastery Myrddin native Norman Northumbria ofthe Outer Zone Owain Patrick Pelagianism Picts placenames poem political Powys princes raids Rheged Rhodri Riothamus Roman Britain Rome rulers saints Salway Saxons scholars Scotland Scots settlements sixth century Snyder stone Strathclyde survived Tacitus Thomas towns tribes Viking villa Votadini Wales Welsh western writes Zosimus