Under another sky: journeys in Roman Britain
Higgins, Charlotte 1972-
Under another sky: journeys in Roman Britain - Jonathan Cape 2013 - xxii, 282 pages
Includes bibliographical references and index
This is a book about the encounter with Roman Britain: about what the idea of 'Roman Britain' has meant to those who came after Britain's 400-year stint as province of Rome - from the medieval mythographer-historian Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edward Elgar and W.H. Auden. What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Charlotte Higgins has traced these tales by setting out to discover the remains of Roman Britain for herself, sometimes on foot, sometimes in a splendid, though not particularly reliable, VW campervan.
9780224090896 0224090895
100=NOTNACO
Romans in literature
Great Britain--History--Roman period 55 B.C.-449 A.D
936.104 HIG
Under another sky: journeys in Roman Britain - Jonathan Cape 2013 - xxii, 282 pages
Includes bibliographical references and index
This is a book about the encounter with Roman Britain: about what the idea of 'Roman Britain' has meant to those who came after Britain's 400-year stint as province of Rome - from the medieval mythographer-historian Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edward Elgar and W.H. Auden. What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Charlotte Higgins has traced these tales by setting out to discover the remains of Roman Britain for herself, sometimes on foot, sometimes in a splendid, though not particularly reliable, VW campervan.
9780224090896 0224090895
100=NOTNACO
Romans in literature
Great Britain--History--Roman period 55 B.C.-449 A.D
936.104 HIG