Who do the English think they are?
For centuries, debate has raged about whether England’s population is largely descended from German immigrants. Now, we have answers
Who do the English think they are?
In the early 5th century the Roman legions abandoned Britain, and the sceptered isle fell off the pages of history. When it reemerges two centuries later Celtic Britain had become the seedbed for the nation-state of England. The Christian religion, newly-established on the island at the time, had given way once again to paganism. Brythonic […]
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Who do the English think they are?
For centuries, debate has raged about whether England’s population is largely descended from German immigrants. Now, we have answers
Rome: who we were and who we are
Bryan Ward-Perkins in The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization spends a great deal of time on the archaeology of the Classical and post-Classical world. But, he also devotes only somewhat less space to the historiography of the study of the Roman Empire, and Late Antiquity. That is because the study of the […]