Roman Britain and the English SettlementsA history of English history from the Roman to Anglo Saxon period. |
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Contents
BRITAIN BEFORE THE ROMAN CONQUEST | 1 |
BRITAIN IN THE TIME OF JULIUS CAESAR | 16 |
Distribution of the population | 17 |
CAESARS INVASION | 32 |
The invasion of 54 | 41 |
FROM CAESAR TO CLAUDIUS | 54 |
Roman intentions with relation to Britain | 71 |
The invasion | 79 |
Contrast between artistic and religious conditions in Roman Britain | 261 |
Lack of unity in RomanoBritish paganism | 269 |
THE END OF ROMAN BRITAIN | 274 |
The House of Valentinian | 284 |
THE END OF ROMAN RULE | 291 |
Extent and character of the reoccupation | 299 |
British affairs from 400 to 450 | 306 |
Condition of Britain about 450 | 313 |
Verulam becomes a municipium | 86 |
Caratacus betrayed to Ostorius by Cartirnandua 95 | 95 |
The later years of Nero | 105 |
Julius Agricola | 113 |
THE MAKING OF THE FRONTIER | 120 |
It is not the Trajanic frontier | 126 |
The building of the Wall | 136 |
Motives for the creation of the Antonine Wall | 146 |
The civil wars of 193197 | 155 |
BRITAIN UNDER ROMAN RULE | 161 |
The capital of Roman Britain | 170 |
Density of the population | 180 |
THE TOWNS | 186 |
RomanoBritish townlife at its apogee | 196 |
Agriculture in Roman Britain | 208 |
The villa system | 213 |
The villages | 221 |
CONTENTS | 226 |
Communications | 240 |
XV | 247 |
Impossibility of fusing these two traditions | 254 |
ANGLES SAXONS | 325 |
A geographical approach essential | 333 |
Angles Saxons and Jutes in Britain | 347 |
The literary tradition of the settlement of Kent | 357 |
Composite character of Kentish culture | 363 |
Settlement of Surrey | 369 |
The common features in the settlement of the southeast | 377 |
Importance of the fcnlands in the AngloSaxon settlement | 383 |
Extent of settlement based on the fenlands | 388 |
AngloSaxon penetration of the Midlands | 408 |
its geographical isolation | 414 |
Bcrnicia settled late and from the sea | 421 |
The problem of urban continuity | 428 |
The problem of the countryside | 440 |
Summary survey of the state of England soon after the middle of | 451 |
APPENDIXES TO BOOK V | 457 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR BOOKS IIV | 462 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR BOOK V | 478 |
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