Finis Britanniae: A Military History of Late Roman Britain and the Saxon Conquest (Dahm Murray)(Pevná vazba)

The end of Roman Britain and the Saxon invasions were part of the most disruptive period in Britain's history, ending centuries of relative stability as a Roman province and beginning centuries of invasion and destruction. It is a period which is also difficult to understand, coming at the end of the Roman era and in the pre-dawn of the Medieval. It is a Dark Age, both in terms of our apparent lack of source material and in our understanding of events. As a result, several legendary figures appear - it is the age of Arthur, Merlin and others; figures steeped in mystery, mysticism and magic, allowed to thrive in the paucity of the source material. In this new analysis, Murray Dahm explores the military history of the long end of Roman Britain, going back to the roots of the province's final rupture from Rome in the fifth century and the subsequent invasions. Using a wide array of
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