The Romanization Of Roman Britain

Reproduction of the original: The Romanization of Roman Britain by F. Haverfield

Excerpt from The Romanization of Roman Britain The following pages are based on a paper which I read to the British Academy in 1905 and which, according to the custom of the Academy, was issued both in its general 'Proceedings' (ii. 185-217) and separately. In its separate form it soon ran out of print, and in 1912 the Delegates of the Clarendon Press published a new edition, revised and enlarged to about twice its original size. This second edition is now in turn exhausted; in issuing a third, I have revised and in places recast the text, and I have again increased considerably both text and illustrations. I have tried to preserve the character of the work as a treatise on a definite subject which seems to possess quite real interest and importance; I have also endeavoured so to word my matter that the text, though not the footnotes, can be read easily by any one who is interested in the subject, without special knowledge of Latin. I have to add one regret. Last June my friend Franz Cumont told me that he was writing a volume somewhat similar to mine, which would describe the Romanization of his own country, Belgium. In the Roman age Britain and northern Gaul, which includes the area of Belgium, were so closely akin in many ways that such a volume from Cumont's pen could not fail to cast strong new light on Romano-British problems; I hoped to learn much from it for the betterment of this edition. War has come between. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This book sets out to provide a new synthesis of recent archaeological work in Roman Britain.