Hengest, Gwrtheyrn and the Chronology of Post-Roman Britain

di Flint F. Johnson (Autore)

McFarland & Co Inc, 2014

In this book, the author makes use of the methodology he developed in Origins of Arthurian Romances (McFarland 2012) in order to reevaluate the post-Roman history of Britain. He begins by delving into the historical contexts of the key traditional players of the fifth century-Hengest and Gwrtheyrn. A better understanding of these two characters allows for a reexamination of the persons and events of the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries. The text that follows entirely realigns how those centuries can be seen from a chronological as well as a military and political standpoint. The fifth century was not a time of British and Germanic fragmentation as they separated from Rome, but one of slow integration and the formation of kingships that were a result of the economic realities of surviving without the dying giant.

• Autore: Flint F. Johnson
• Editore: McFarland & Co Inc
• Anno: 2014
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 264 p.
• Dimensioni: 254 x 178 mm
• Peso: 475 gr.
• EAN: 9780786478194

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