The Britons [Hardcover]

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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• A fascinating and unique history of the Britons from the late Iron Age to the late Middle Ages.
  
• Describes the life, language and culture of the Britons before, during and after Roman rule.
  
• Examines the figures of King Arthur and Merlin and the evolution of a powerful national mythology.
  
• Proposes a new theory on the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain and the establishment of separate Brittonic kingdoms.
  
• Discusses revivals of interest in British culture and myth, from Renaissance antiquarians to modern day Druids.

List of Plates.

List of Figures.

List of Maps.

List of Tables.

Preface.

Abbreviations.

1. Who are the Britons?.

Britons and the Great Celtic Debate.

Historiography and Methodology.

Part I: Romans and Britons:.

2. Late Pre-Roman Iron Age.

The Earliest Britons.

Hallstatt and La Tène.

The Belgae.

Oppida and Proto-Urbanism in Britain.

Caesar and the Britons.

British Tribes and the Rise of the Catuvellauni.

3. The Roman Period.

The Claudian conquest.

British Client Kings.

Caratacus.

Boudica.

Military expansion and Roml£¡