The Roman Government of Britain [Hardcover]

The Roman Government of Britainis a completely rewritten version of Professor Birley'sFasti of Roman Britain(1981), with biographical entries for all higher officials from AD 43 to 409. Several new governors, legionary legates, tribunes, procurators, and fleet prefects are included, and the entries for those previously known revised; and in this edition translations of all sources have been added. Introductory sections deal with career structures in the principate and the changed system of the late empire. Evidence for imperial visits is also quoted and discussed. The work provides a full conspectus of all the literary, epigraphic, and numismatic sources for the history of Roman rule in Britain.

1. High officials of the undivided province, 43-c.213
2. From Caracalla to Carinus, c.213-285
3. Carausius and Allectus, 286-296
4. The last century of Roman rule

This book is a product of the Oxford tradition of ancient history--total immersion in the written sources--which will make it immediately attractive to specialist ancient historians. --Peter Salway,History: Reviews of New Books

This book is a product of the Oxford tradition of ancient history - total immersion in the written sources - which will make it immediately attractive to specialist ancient historians. --Peter Salway,History: Reviews of New Books

This excellent work presents biographical information on the known officials, both civil and military, who ruled Roman Britain. --Choice

Anthony R. Birley is Chairman of Trustees, Vindolanda Trust.