Print Price: $52.95

Format:
Paperback
368 pp.
Maps, halftones and line drawings, 138 mm x 216 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199249824

Publication date:
November 2003

Imprint: OUP UK

After Rome

Edited by Thomas Charles-Edwards

Series : Short Oxford History of the British Isles

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.

Readership : Undergraduate history students studying Britain in the Dark Ages and the general reader interested in British history between the fifth and the ninth centuries. Also useful background reading for those doing medieval options on Art History degrees or medieval literature / Anglo-Saxon options on English degrees.