Civitas to Kingdom

Download or read book Civitas to Kingdom written by Ken R. Dark and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The typical image of Dark Age Britain is that after the Romans left, people basically twiddled their thumbs and illuminated some manuscripts until the Anglo-Saxons admitted them back into history and the world. Not so, says Dark. He has directed and reported on many excavations of his own, but here he draws on other archaeological, historical, and literary studies to argue that the political structures of the late Roman period persevered to become those of the Middle Ages. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR