Under another sky : journeys in Roman Britain
Higgins, Charlotte, 1972-2014
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This is a book about the encounter with Roman Britain: about what the idea of 'Roman Britain' has meant to those who came after Britain's 400-year stint as province of Rome - from the medieval mythographer-historian Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edward Elgar and W.H. Auden. What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Charlotte Higgins has traced these tales by setting out to discover the remains of Roman Britain for herself, sometimes on foot, sometimes in a splendid, though not particularly reliable, VW campervan.
Main title:
Under another sky : journeys in Roman Britain / Charlotte Higgins.
Author:
Higgins, Charlotte, 1972-, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage Books, 2014.London : Vintage Books, 2014.
Collation:
xxii, 282 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2013.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780099552093 (pbk)
Dewey class:
936.104936.104 HIG
Language:
English
BRN:
1489224