Under another sky: journeys in Roman Britain
by Higgins, Charlotte 1972-.
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BookPublisher: Jonathan Cape 2013ISBN: 9780224090896; 0224090895.Classification number: 936.104 HIGSubject(s): Romans in literature | Great Britain -- History -- Roman period 55 B.C.-449 A.DSubject: 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.
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| 936.1 ROB Ancestors : the prehistory of Britain in seven burials / | 936.1008 CEL Celtic connections: | 936.104 DE Roman Britain: a new history | 936.104 HIG Under another sky: journeys in Roman Britain | 936.104 MOO The Romans who shaped Britain | 936.2 GID Revealing King Arthur: swords, stones and digging for Camelot | 936.2317 LEA The story of Silbury Hill |
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.
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