Binding: Paperback
Description: The period from the departure of the Romans through to the coming of the Vikings saw the gradual conversion of the peoples of the British Isles to Christianity and (with the exception of Ireland) the redrawing of the ethnic and political map of the islands. The chapters in this volume each written by a leading scholar of the period analyse in turn the different nationalities and kingdoms that existed in the British Isles during this period the process of their conversion to Christianity the development of art and of a written culture and the interaction between this written culture and the societies of the day. The first scholarly account to move away from the pattern of histories constructed on the basis of later nation states this volume takes Britain and Ireland as a whole so as to understand them better as they were at the time and avoid anachronistic divisions from a later era. It is an approach that allows the volume to give greater weight to the important religious intellectual and artistic developments and interactions of the period which normally crossed national boundaries.
Title: After Rome
Brand: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199249824
Pages: 362 Pages, Maps, Halftones And Line Drawings
Publication Date: 1/29/2004
Series: Short Oxford History of the British Isles
Category: Cultural Studies