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Hengest, Gwrtheyrn and the Chronology of Post-Roman Britain

Hengest, Gwrtheyrn and the Chronology of Post-Roman Britain

Johnson, Flint F.

Paperback

Art HistoryHistorical FiguresMedieval & Renaissance History

ISBN10: 0786478195
ISBN13: 9780786478194
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Feb 18 2014
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

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.

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