Abstract: |
A completely fresh look at Roman Britain, questioning many fundamental beliefs about the evidence provided by pottery, coinage, rural settlement and 'things called towns', cemeteries and demography, deduction, analysis and thinking, interpretation, and the transition from Britannia to England. The work also offers a general theory of change between AD 200 and 800, and the emphasis throughout is on practical realities of life in the Romano-British countryside and town, with the exercise of controlled imagination and much self-debate. |