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ePub Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400-1070 (Penguin History of Britain, Vol. 2) download
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Robin Fleming
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978-0713990645
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Penguin Global; 1st edition (May 4, 2011)
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Britain After Rome book. The result of a lifetime of work, Robin Fleming's major new addition to the Penguin History of Britain could not be more opportune.

Britain After Rome book. A richly enjoyable, varied and surprising book, Britain after Rome allows its readers to see Britain's history in a quite new light.

Robin Fleming's 'Britain After Rome' should not be read as an exclusive history of the period she covers (400BCE . Sadly for the Penguin series and the history of Britain this book is not one that will help with that task. 2 people found this helpful.

Robin Fleming's 'Britain After Rome' should not be read as an exclusive history of the period she covers (400BCE - 1070BCE). It does, however, provide a fascinating look into more of the day-to-day quality of life during this period.

The result of a lifetime of work, Robin Fleming's major new addition to the Penguin History of Britain could not be more opportune. The glory and maybe the frustration of this book is the amazing archaeological stories Robin tells.

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The Penguin History of Britain is a popular book series on British history, published by Penguin Books. Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070 (2010) by Robin Fleming. The Struggle for Mastery: Britain, 1066-1284 (2003) by David Carpenter. The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages (2005) by Miri Rubin.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-429) and index. Download now Britain after Rome : the fall and rise, 400-1070 Robin Fleming. Download PDF book format. Download DOC book format. book below: (C) 2016-2018 All rights are reserved by their owners.

In Britain After Rome Robin Fleming writes about the people of early medieval Britain and the communities in which they lived

In Britain After Rome Robin Fleming writes about the people of early medieval Britain and the communities in which they lived. It’s a narrative history, in which the story it tells is driven not by such famous individuals as King Offa and Æthelred the Unready, but by the lives of the hundreds and thousands of nameless people who lived and died alongside them. The written sources for these centuries are poor, but the archaeology, using the most cutting-edge technology, is fascinating, allowing us to know so much more about our ancestors than could have been imagined even ten years ago.

I picked up a copy of Robin Fleming's "Britain after Rome". I find her work in the early part of the book to be interesting, but after that point she starts to speculate in a far ranging manner in her interpretation on the use and significance of grave goods

I picked up a copy of Robin Fleming's "Britain after Rome". I find her work in the early part of the book to be interesting, but after that point she starts to speculate in a far ranging manner in her interpretation on the use and significance of grave goods.

The enormous hoard of beautiful gold military objects found in a field in Staffordshire has focused huge attention on the mysterious world of 7th and 8th century Britain. Clearly the product of a sophisticated, wealthy, highly militarized society, the objects beg innumerable questions about how we are to understand the people who once walked across the same landscape we inhabit, who are our ancestors and yet left such a slight record of their presence. Britain after Rome brings together a wealth of research and imaginative engagement to bring us as close as we can hope to get to the tumultuous centuries between the departure of the Roman legions and the arrival of Norman invaders nearly seven centuries later. As towns fell into total decay, Christianity disappeared and wave upon wave of invaders swept across the island, it can be too easily assumed that life in Britain became intolerable - and yet this is the world in which modern languages and political arrangements were forged, a number of fascinating cultures rose and fell and tantalizing glimpses, principally through the study of buildings and burials, can be had of a surprising and resilient place. The result of a lifetime of work, Robin Fleming's major new addition to the Penguin History of Britain could not be more opportune. A richly enjoyable, varied and surprising book, Britain after Rome allows its readers to see Britain's history in a quite new light.
  • Robin Fleming's 'Britain After Rome' should not be read as an exclusive history of the period she covers (400BCE - 1070BCE). It does, however, provide a fascinating look into more of the day-to-day quality of life during this period. While one reviewer dismissed her reliance on archeology and her lack of coverage of textual material, this is largely explained by the fact that most of the textual sources have already been well covered in other histories. Her extraction of information from archeology gives us a glimpse of the quality of life including the health, foods, diseases,and burial inferences that can be drawn about the period. Unlike the other reviewer, I was delighted with the presentation and did not find her making robust generalizations but rather, giving detailed and specific portrayals of life in particular places at particular times. Is the result somewhat impressionistic? Perhpas so, but one must be reminded of her point toward the end of the book in stating that the textual material was written by, of, and for an elite, not the hoi poloi of early medieval soceity. The archeology gives us a somewhat different take on the period. She also provides a way to conceive of the larger mvoement of culture in transition from Roman-British to the Germanic-Scandavian ways of social organization. are there still many gaps in the information? Absolutely, but this narratives gives powerful glimpses into an otherwise obscure time.

    Her treatment of the 'invasion' by Angles, Saxons, et al. seems worth considering as an alternative to the more traditional beliefs about a highly violent one. Her suggestion of small groups gradually infiltrating rather than mass assemblies invading is intersting and seems supportable. What she might have explored is why, if this is the real picture, the native British language was completely replaced by the Germanic language of the newcomers except in Wales and the far north. In France, the Franks went Latin as did many other Germanic groups in Spain and northern Italy. So what was so compelling about the newcomer languages that they were adopted by both British and the newcomers?

    All in all a very intersting read and one that provides complement to other narratives of the textual history of the period.

  • I would have thought that by the year 2010 any examination of the Anglo-Saxon migration/invasion by a historian would have examined the literature, the archaeology and the genetic studies all combined to help sort the facts. While no serious historian or even enthusiast can seriously argue for the classic view of the Anglo-Saxon invasion Prof Fleming's book goes too far in the other direction. Archaeology has it's place in the story but it also has it's limitations, namely that dating is extremely difficult and can be off by decades if not even a century or more. Professor Fleming's text is also more than bit light on actual history, except as how it is explained through the interpretation of grave goods. This failure to approach the history of the period is curious especially when this book is part of the series dedicated to the history of Britain.

    That being said, as the book is so focused on the archaeology it presents the finding in the graves extremely well and in detail. Unfortunately the explanations of what is found is open to interpretation and proper conclusions cannot possibly be drawn without reference to the same histories the author chooses to set aside. It is not that these histories can be taken at face value but Gildas, Bede, Nennius, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as well as the Frankish contributions all provide trends or similar lines of thought and experience that the historian can use to propose a likely explanation of events.

    No one discipline is going to explain what happened in England in the silent years of the 5th and 6th centuries. The massive paradigm shift from a Romano-Celtic Christian society to a pagan German society that replaced language, religion, place names,law, social structure and even changed the gene pool of England cannot be explained by grave goods and pottery sherds alone. The literature of the period, the archaeology and the newer genetic studies all have a voice in explaining what happened. Sadly for the Penguin series and the history of Britain this book is not one that will help with that task.