The Roman Occupation of Britain and Its Legacy

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE -- 3. THE ROMAN ARMY -- 4. HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? -- (i) Contemporaneous his...

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Main Author: Jackson, Rupert M. Sir (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc , 2020
Online Access:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6241448
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Summary:Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE -- 3. THE ROMAN ARMY -- 4. HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? -- (i) Contemporaneous historians -- (ii) Official records -- (iii) Archaeological evidence -- CHAPTER 2 BRITAIN IN THE IRON AGE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE IRON AGE -- 3. CONTACT WITH THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD -- 4. BRITISH COMMUNITIES DURING THE LATE IRON AGE -- (i) South- east England -- (ii) Dorset and the Midlands -- (iii) The West Country and Wales -- (iv) The north -- 5. ROME'S PERCEPTION OF BRITAIN IN THE LATE IRON AGE -- CHAPTER 3 THE FIRST INVASIONS: JULIUS CAESAR -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE INVASION IN 55 BC -- 3. THE INVASION IN 54 BC -- 4. REVIEW OF CAESAR'S CAMPAIGNS IN BRITAIN -- CHAPTER 4 THE INVASION OF SOUTHERN BRITAIN: THE EMPEROR CLAUDIUS -- 1. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND -- 2. RELATIONS BETWEEN BRITAIN AND ROME -- 3. CLAUDIUS' INVASION IN AD 43 -- 4. CONSOLIDATION OF ROMAN CONTROL -- (i) South- west England -- (ii) South- east England -- (iii) The Midlands -- CHAPTER 5 BRITAIN IN THE MID-FIRST CENTURY -- 1. ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCES OF THE EMERGENT PROVINCE -- 2. THE CAMPAIGNS AGAINST WALES -- 3. BRITISH ECONOMY AND SOCIETY IN THE MID-FIRST CENTURY -- CHAPTER 6 BOUDICA'S REBELLION AND ITS AFTERMATH -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BACKGROUND TO THE REBELLION: ROMAN REPRESSION AND GREED -- 3. BOUDICA STRIKES BACK (AD 60-61) -- 4. THE ROMANS PREVAIL -- 5. AFTERMATH -- CHAPTER 7 THE FLAVIAN PERIOD -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. IMPROVING THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE PROVINCE -- 3. CERIALIS' CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE BRIGANTES -- 4. CAMPAIGNS IN WALES: FRONTINUS AND AGRICOLA -- 5. AGRICOLA'S CAMPAIGNS IN THE NORTH -- 6. THE PERIOD AFTER AGRICOLA.
(i) From Domitian to Trajan -- (ii) Consolidation of the province and rebuilding the legionary fortresses in stone -- CHAPTER 8 LIFE ON THE NORTHERN FRONTIER -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. VINDOLANDA: THE FORTS AND THE TABLETS -- 3. THE FIRST COHORT OF THE TUNGRIANS (AD 85-92) -- 4. THE NINTH COHORT OF THE BATAVIANS (AD 92-105) -- 5. THE FIRST COHORT OF THE TUNGRIANS (AD 105-128) -- 6. THE PICTURE THAT EMERGES FROM THE VINDOLANDA TABLETS -- CHAPTER 9 THE ROMANIZATION OF BRITAIN IN THE FIRST CENTURY -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. TACITUS' ACCOUNT OF ROMANIZATION IN THE FIRST CENTURY -- 3. HAVERFIELD FOLLOWS TACITUS -- 4. THE MEANING OF ROMANIZATION -- 5. HOW WAS BRITAIN SIMILAR TO OTHER PROVINCES IN ITS INFRASTRUCURE AND ORGANIZATION DURING THE FIRST CENTURY? -- CHAPTER 10 THE EMPEROR HADRIAN VISITS BRITAIN -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BRITAIN DURING THE EARLY YEARS OF HADRIAN'S REIGN -- 3. HADRIAN'S VISIT TO BRITAIN IN AD 122 -- 4. HADRIAN'S WALL -- (i) The frontiers of the Roman Empire19 -- (ii) The construction of Hadrian's Wall -- (iii) What was the purpose of the wall? -- (iv) What was the effect of the wall? -- 5. BRITAIN IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING HADRIAN'S VISIT -- (i) Urban development -- (ii) Salt industry and the Fens -- (iii) The fleet and the establishment of a new port at Dover -- CHAPTER 11 BRITAIN IN THE SECOND CENTURY -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE REIGN OF ANTONINUS PIUS (AD 138-161) -- (i) The war -- (ii) The wall -- (iii) Abandonment of the Antonine Wall and return to Hadrian's Wall -- 3. TAKING STOCK: WAS BRITANNIA PAYING ITS WAY? -- 4. THE REIGN OF MARCUS AURELIUS (AD 161-180) -- 5. THE REIGN OF COMMODUS (AD 180-192) -- CHAPTER 12 THE EMPEROR SEVERUS ARRIVES AND STAYS -- 1. THE CIVIL WAR (AD 193-197) -- 2. THE REIGN OF SEVERUS (197-211): A TURNING POINT FOR THE ROMAN EMPIRE -- 3. BRITAIN DURING SEVERUS' REIGN -- 4. SEVERUS CAMPAIGNS IN SCOTLAND.
CHAPTER 13 THE THIRD CENTURY -- 1. THE REIGN OF CARACALLA (AD 211-217) -- 2. THE MID-THIRD CENTURY (AD 217-284) -- 3. THE TETRARCHY -- 4. THE SHORE FORTS -- 5. THE USURPATION OF CARAUSIUS AND ALLECTUS -- CHAPTER 14 THE EMPEROR CONSTANTINE LAUNCHES HIS CAREER IN BRITAIN -- 1. BRITAIN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FOURTH CENTURY -- 2. THE MOMENTOUS EVENTS OF AD 305-306 AND THEIR AFTERMATH -- 3. BRITAIN DURING THE REIGN OF CONSTANTINE -- (i) Military control -- (ii) Civil administration of the four British provinces -- (iii) Urbanism and local government -- (iv) Villa culture -- (v) Social and religious life -- CHAPTER 15 TURMOIL IN THE MID-FOURTH CENTURY -- 1. CONSTANTINE'S DYNASTY (AD 337-363) -- 2. BRITAIN IN THE MID-FOURTH CENTURY -- (i) Urbanism -- (ii) Generally -- 3. THE 'BARBARIAN CONSPIRACY' -- (i) The story as told by Ammianus -- (ii) Did it really happen? -- (iii) Aftermath -- 4. THE EMPIRE UNDER ATTACK -- CHAPTER 16 THE FINAL YEARS OF ROMAN BRITAIN -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- (i) Historical sources -- (ii) Archaeology -- 2. THE BEGINNING OF THEODOSIUS' REIGN -- 3. MAXIMUS' REBELLION AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR BRITAIN -- 4. THE END OF THEODOSIUS' REIGN -- 5. THE DECLINE OF ROME AFTER THE DEATH OF THEODOSIUS -- 6. THE END OF ROMAN BRITAIN -- CHAPTER 17 TOWNS AND URBAN LIFE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CIVITAS CAPITALS -- (i) The civitas system -- (ii) Specific towns that served as civitas capitals -- 3. COLONIES -- 4. LONDON -- 5. SMALL TOWNS -- CHAPTER 18 LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ROMAN VILLAS IN BRITAIN -- 3. SOME SPECIFIC VILLAS -- 4. THE DEEP COUNTRYSIDE -- 5. RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE LATE ROMAN PERIOD -- CHAPTER 19 RELIGION IN ROMAN BRITAIN -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ROMAN RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY -- 3. THE ROMAN GODS -- 4. ARMY RELIGION -- 5. THE INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS OF BRITAIN -- 6. THE MINGLING OF CELTIC AND ROMAN RELIGIONS.
7. MITHRAISM -- 8. CHRISTIANITY -- 9. CURSE TABLETS -- (i) The sacred spring at Bath79 -- (ii) Elsewhere in Britain -- 10. SUMMARY -- CHAPTER 20 THE ROMANO-BRITISH LEGACY -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. TO WHAT EXTENT AND HOW WAS BRITAIN ROMANIZED DURING THE ROMAN OCCUPATION? -- (i) The military community -- (ii) Urban dwellers -- (iii) Rural societies -- (iv) Conclusion -- 3. WHAT DID THE ROMANS GAIN FROM THEIR BRITISH ADVENTURE? -- 4. WHAT DID BRITAIN GAIN FROM THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE? -- 5. SUBSEQUENT BRITISH HISTORY - A VERY BRIEF SUMMARY -- 6. LONG-TERM IMPACT OF THE ROMAN OCCUPATION -- (i) London -- (ii) Other towns -- (iii) Ports and coastal defences -- (iv) Scotland -- (v) Wales -- (vi) National identity -- (vii) Religion and culture -- (viii) Brexit -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (361 pages)
ISBN:9781350149397

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