Hadrian's WallFrom an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a definitive history of Hadrian's Wall Stretching eighty miles from coast to coast across northern England, Hadrian's Wall is the largest Roman artifact known today. It is commonly viewed as a defiant barrier, the end of the empire, a place where civilization stopped and barbarism began. In fact, the massive structure remains shrouded in mystery. Was the wall intended to keep out the Picts, who inhabited the North? Or was it merely a symbol of Roman power and wealth? What was life like for soldiers stationed along its expanse? How was the extraordinary structure built -- with what technology, skills, and materials? In Hadrian's Wall, Adrian Goldsworthy embarks on a historical and archaeological investigation, sifting fact from legend while simultaneously situating the wall in the wider scene of Roman Britain. The result is a concise and enthralling history of a great architectural marvel of the ancient world. |
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User Review - Shrike58 - LibraryThingWhile there is nothing particularly wrong with this book, once one has finished with it one wishes that there was more about the actual wall; this is mostly a distillation of Goldsworthy's admittedly great knowledge of the Roman army in Britain. Read full review
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User Review - la2bkk - LibraryThingWhile I am a big fan of Adrian Goldsworthy, this book disappointed me. The book was both brief, and at times lacked Goldsworthy's normally interesting and informative writing style. Particularly in ... Read full review
Contents
OUTPOST OF EMPIRE | |
THE MAN THE EMPEROR AND THE GRAND DESIGN | |
LEGIONS AND AUXILIA | |
Four | |
LIFE ON THE WALL | |
UNDERSTANDING THE EVIDENCE | |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | |
THE KNOWN AND PROBABLE GARRISONS OF THE FORTS ON HADRIANS WALL | |
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| Title | Hadrian's Wall |
| Author | Adrian Goldsworthy |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Basic Books, 2018 |
| ISBN | 154164445X, 9781541644458 |
| Length | 192 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Architecture / History / Ancient & Classical History / Ancient / Rome History / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066) History / Europe / Great Britain / Scotland History / Military / Ancient |
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