Roman Britain: A Very Short Introduction - Softcover

Salway, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192854046 ISBN 13: 9780192854049

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 2002

Synopsis

Peter Salway's Very Short Introduction to Roman Britain weaves together the results of archaeological investigation and historical scholarship in a rounded and highly readable concise account. He charts life in Roman Britain from the first Roman invasion under Julius Caesar to the final collapse of the Roman Empire in the West around AD 500.

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About the Author

Peter Salway, formerly a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and subsequently of All Souls College, Oxford, is an Emeritus Professor of the Open University and Chairman of the Oxford Archaeological Unit. His publications include The Oxford Illustrated History of Roman Britain, published by OUP in 1993 (reissued in paperback by OUP in 1997 as A History of Roman Britain). He has served as a Member of Council of the National Trust (appointed by the Society of Antiquaries), and was one of the editors of The Remains of Distant Times: Archaeology and the National Trust (Boydell, 1996). He has also published a substantial number of articles and reviews in learned journals and publications for the general reader, mostly on Roman Britain and Classical Antiquity in general, a few on medieval and later British archaeology and architectural history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192854046
• ISBN 13: 9780192854049
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96