Carausius And Allectus

Download or read book Carausius and Allectus written by P J Casey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary episode in the history of Roman Britain has been brilliantly pieced together by John Casey, through a painstaking - and at times detective-like - sifting of the literary, archaeological and numismatic evidence.

Download or read book The Episode of Carausius and Allectus written by Norman Shiel and published by BAR British Series. This book was released on 1977 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Defying Rome written by Guy De la Bédoyère and published by Tempus Pub Limited. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome's power was under constant challenge. Nowhere was this truer than in Britain, Rome's remotest and most recalcitrant province. From the beginning to the end, a succession of idealists, chancers and reactionaries fomented dissent and rebellion. This book covers eleven rebellions and explains why Britain was a hot-bed of dissent.

Download or read book The Silver Branch written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosemary Sutcliff’s Carnegie Medal-winning Roman Britain Trilogy continues more than a century after the events of The Eagle of the Ninth (The Eagle) in The Silver Branch as two cousins join the Roman side in the fight against a tyrannical British emperor. Violence and unrest are sweeping through Roman Britain. Justin and Flavius find themselves caught up in the middle of it all when they discover a plot to overthrow the Emperor. In fear for their lives, they gather together a tattered band of men and lead them into the thick of battle, to defend the honor of Rome. But will they be in time to save the Emperor...

Download or read book In Praise of Later Roman Emperors written by C. E. V. Nixon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, for the first time, is an annotated English translation of the eleven later panegyrics (291-389 C.E.) of the XII Panegyrici Latini, with the original Latin text prepared by R. A. B. Mynors. Each panegyric has a thorough introduction, and detailed commentary on historical events, style, figures of speech, and rhetorical strategies accompanies the translations. The very difficult Latin of these insightful speeches is rendered into graceful English, yet remains faithful to the original.

Download or read book The Heirs of King Verica written by Martin Henig and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a controversial re-examination of historical and archaeological evidence in Roman Britain, which suggests that the impulse for political and cultural change came from the Britons—not the Romans.

Download or read book Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire written by Adrastos Omissi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil war and usurpation were endemic to the later Roman Empire, with no fewer than 37 men claiming imperial power between 284 and 395 AD. This volume constructs the first comprehensive history of civil war in this period through the ways in which successive dynasties manipulated history to legitimate themselves and to discredit their predecessors.