Why did Rome abandon Britain in the early 5th century? According to Neil Faulkner, the centralized, military-bureaucratic state, governed by a class of super-ri

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This book explains what Britain was like in the fourth century AD and how this can only be understood in the wider context of the western Roman Empire.

"An examination of the transformations in lowland Britain's material culture over the course of the long fifth century CE during the late Roman regime and its e

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