The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain - Hardcover

Faulkner, Neil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0752414585 ISBN 13: 9780752414584

Publisher: Tempus Pub Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Why did Rome abandon Britain in the early 5th century? According to Neil Faulkner, the centralized, military-bureaucratic state, governed by a class of super-rich landlords and apparatchiks, had siphoned wealth out of the province, with the result that the towns declined and the countryside was depressed. When the army withdrew to defend the imperial heartlands, the remaining Romano-British elite succumbed to a combination of warlord power, barbarian attack, and popular revolt.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Why did Rome abandon Britain in the early fifth century? According to Neil Faulkner, the centralized, military–bureaucratic state, governed by a class of super–rich landlords and apparatchiks, had siphoned wealth out of the province, with the result that the towns declined and the countryside was depressed. When the army withdrew to defend the imperial heartlands, the remaining Romano–British élite succumbed to a combination of warlord power, barbarian attack and popular revolt.

Neil Faulkner is a freelance historian and archaeologist, and one of the editors of CURRENT ARCHAEOLOGY.

About the Author:

Neil Faulkner is a leading archaeologist and historian, editor of "Military Times" magazine, and co-director of the Great Arab Revolt Project.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tempus Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0752414585
• ISBN 13: 9780752414584
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176