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	Roman Britain and Early England: 55 B.C.-A.D. 871 (Norton Library History of England) Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $13.12 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) (4 Customer Reviews) Editorial Review: By the time of Caesar's first expedition to Britain in 55 BC, migratory movements bad established close ties of kinship and common interest between the peoples who lived in Gaul and some of the inhabitants of Britain. Because the source material is so meager for much of early British history, Mr. Blair is careful to explain just how scholars have arrived at an accurate knowledge of the first 900 years. The real history of Britain begins with the Roman occupation, for the Romans were the first to leave substantial documentary and archaeological evidence. After the governorship of Agricola the written sources almost entirely disappear until the early Anglo-Saxon era of the fifth century; but archaeologists have been able to gather a great deal of information about the intervening centuries from the excavations of old walled towns, roads, and fortresses dating from the Roman period. Mr. Blair skillfully describes the transition from Roman to Saxon England and shows why Rome's greatest legacy to her former colony - Christianity -flowered within the Anglo-Saxon culture. The source material on Saxon England is mainly documentary, as these new inhabitants built in wood and little archaeological evidence has survived. However, Bede's Ecclesiastical History oj the English Nation and other great Christian writings, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Beowulf, the stories of Caedmon, and other poems and epics in the Germanic minstrelsy tradition, have revealed much about English economic, social, and cultural life up to the accession of Alfred the Great. is the first volume of the "Norton Library History of England." Lowest New Price: $9.79 - Total New: 13 Lowest Used Price: $2.80 - Total Used: 35
	Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $36.67 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) Feature: ISBN13: 9780300144857 Editorial Review: Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and reinvent the Druids. Hutton’s captivating book is the first to encompass two thousand years of Druid history and to explore the evolution of English, Scottish, and Welsh attitudes toward the forever ambiguous figures of the ancient Celtic world. Druids have been remembered at different times as patriots, scientists, philosophers, or priests; sometimes portrayed as corrupt, bloodthirsty, or ignorant, they were also seen as fomenters of rebellion. Hutton charts how the Druids have been written in and out of history, archaeology, and the public consciousness for some 500 years, with particular focus on the romantic period, when Druids completely dominated notions of British prehistory. Sparkling with legends and images, filled with new perspectives on ancient and modern times, this book is a fascinating cultural study of Druids as catalysts in British history. Lowest New Price: $36.67 - Total New: 26 Lowest Used Price: $30.00 - Total Used: 9
	Arthur's Britain (Classic History) Price: $16.00 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) (3 Customer Reviews) Editorial Review: We are all familiar with the heroic deeds and enchantments of the legendary tales surrounding King Arthur. But what evidence is there for a real figure beneath the myth and romance? Arthur's Britain assembles a wealth of information about the history of Arthur by delving into the shadowy period in which he lived. Drawing on evidence from written and archaeological sources, Leslie Alcock, who directed the famous excavation at Cadbury Castle in Somerset, England, sifts history from fiction to take us back to life between the fourth and seventh centuries. He also provides fascinating detail on how the Britons actually lived, worshipped, dressed, and fought to uncover the real world and people behind the Arthurian legends. Lowest New Price: $9.33 - Total New: 6 Lowest Used Price: $0.56 - Total Used: 28
	Women in Roman Britain (New Edition) Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $19.95 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) (1 Customer Reviews) Editorial Review: What was life really like for women in Roman Britain? This up-dated edition incorporates new archaeological discoveries - and brings together a wealth of fascinating material to paint a vivid impression of women's experiences across different regions and social groups. This is the only broad overview of Roman women's health, religion, family life and homes, dress, jewelry and hairstyle and pastimes. Lowest New Price: $9.54 - Total New: 8 Lowest Used Price: $19.94 - Total Used: 3
	The Anglo-Saxons (Penguin History) Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $18.48 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) (7 Customer Reviews) Feature: ISBN13: 9780140143959 Editorial Review: This survey, an introduction to the history of Anglo-Saxon England looks at political history, and religious, cultural, social, legal and economic themes are woven in. Throughout the book the authors make use of original sources such as chronicles, charters, manuscripts and coins, works of art, archaelogical remains and surviving buildings.The nature of power and kingship, role of wealth, rewards, conquest and blood-feud in the perennial struggle for power, structure of society, the development of Christianity and the relations between church and secular authority are discussed at length, while particular topics are explored in 19 "picture essays". Lowest New Price: $13.88 - Total New: 32 Lowest Used Price: $7.94 - Total Used: 35
	An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409 (Penguin History of Britain) Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $14.96 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) (1 Customer Reviews) Editorial Review: The definitive history of Roman Britain In the first major narative history of the subject in more than a generation, David Mattingly brings life in Britain during four hundred years of Roman domination into vivid relief. Drawing on a wealth of new research and cutting through the myths and misunderstandings that commonly surround most perceptions of Roman Britain, An Imperial Possession describes a remote and culturally diverse province that required a heavy military presence both to keep its subjects in order and to exploit its resources for the empire. With his wonderful addition to the Penguin History of Britain series, “Mattingly shows . . . just how interesting life could be on the outer fringes of the Roman Empire” (The Sunday Telegraph). Lowest New Price: $5.06 - Total New: 28 Lowest Used Price: $2.16 - Total Used: 15
	Landmarks of Britain: The Five Hundred Places That Made Our History Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $29.95 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) Editorial Review: Five hundred sites where the great events in British history were played out, from the Roman Baths to the Millennium Bridge. Landmarks of Britain presents the history of the nation through the places where it actually happened. Each of the "landmarks" described tells the story of a great event or figure; the result is a sweeping panorama of history, encompassing battlefields, cathedrals, and palaces, of course, but also landmarks linked with great events in the worlds of science, literature, architecture, religion, espionage, sport, agriculture, and industry. Historian Clive Aslet intersperses rousing tales of triumph and disaster with witty insights into national quirks and customs. Follow Aslet in visiting all 500 landmarks, and you will have relived the epic of British history through the very fields and stones on which it occurred. Clive Aslet is the award-winning editor of COUNTRY LIFE. Lowest New Price: $12.45 - Total New: 7 Lowest Used Price: $3.24 - Total Used: 13
	Rome's Saxon Shore: Coastal Defences of Roman Britain AD 250-500 (Fortress) Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $14.49 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) (6 Customer Reviews) Feature: ISBN13: 9781846030949 Editorial Review: Although the exact dates of construction of the so-called Saxon Shore forts are uncertain, the development of the frontier system that ran form the Wash to the Solent on the south-east coast of Roman Britain was spread over at least a century and a half. Many of the new forts were notable for the superior strength of their defences, with thicker stone walls bristling with projecting curved bastions. These and other features were clearly designed to them more difficult to storm than old-style frontier forts with their classic playing-card shape and internal towers. Defense earlier in the Roman era had meant aggressive response in the open field or even offensive pre-emptive strikes into enemy territory. The new trend was to build stronger, the emphasis being on solid, more static defense, anticipating attack and absorbing it rather than going out to meet it. Most of the major harbours and estuaries of the east and south-east coasts of Britain were fortified in this manner. There was a similar series of military installations across the Channel in Gaul, extending along the northern coast as far as what is now Brittany. Whatever their precise tactical and strategic function, a continuing debate to which this book contributes, the construction of these stone forts represented a huge outlay of money, and commitment of manpower and materials. The Saxon Shore Forts are among the most impressive surviving monuments of Roman Britain. This book addresses a number ofthe fascinating questions they provoke - Who built these Forts? When and for what purposes? How were they built? How did they operate? Who garrisoned them, and for how long? Lowest New Price: $5.00 - Total New: 21 Lowest Used Price: $1.31 - Total Used: 21
	Roads in Roman Britain (Revealing History) Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $31.50 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) Editorial Review: In Roman Britain, the road between Londinium (London) and Noviogamus (Chichester) was completed with an error of less than one degree, a feat it has often been assumed was achieved without maps. However, little is known of when, how, and even why they were built. Davies uses archaeological evidence to examine what was built, and places these findings in historical context using sources from antiquity. What makes this study unique however is his use of expert knowledge from his work as a professional highway engineer to understand the significance of the roads. Davies analyses the possible methods the Romans used in order to achieve the durability and accuracy for which they are renowned, maintaining the extensive network in a working state the quality of which would not again be paralleled until the 19th century. Lowest New Price: $20.54 - Total New: 10 Lowest Used Price: $23.32 - Total Used: 1
	A History of Roman Britain Condition: New Availability: Temporarily out of stock. Order now and we'll deliver when available. We'll e-mail you with an estimated delivery date as soon as we have more information. Your credit card will not be charged until we ship the item. Price: $17.15 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) (3 Customer Reviews) Editorial Review: 'One could not ask for a more meticulous or scholarly assessment of what Britain meant to the Romans, or Rome to Britons, than Peter Salway's Monumental Study' Frederick Raphael, Sunday Times From the invasions of Julius Caesar to the unexpected end of Roman rule in the early fifth century AD and the subsequent collapse of society in Britain, this book is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of Roman Britain ever published for the general reader. Peter Salway's narrative takes into account the latest research including exciting discoveries of recent years, and will be welcomed by anyone interested in Roman Britain. Lowest New Price: $11.16 - Total New: 11 Lowest Used Price: $19.53 - Total Used: 8