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    Post-Roman Kingdoms: ?Dark Ages' Gaul & Britain, AD 450?800

    Post-Roman Kingdoms by D?Amato, Raffaele;

    ?Dark Ages' Gaul & Britain, AD 450?800

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Osprey Publishing
    • Date of Publication 19 January 2023
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781472850980
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages64 pages
    • Size 246x182x6 mm
    • Weight 220 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 8-page colour artwork section of equipment and uniforms. Photos of archaeological finds, contemporary sculpture and manuscript illuminations
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    Meticulously researched, this book examines the evidence for the post-Roman military forces of France and Britain during the 'Dark Ages', reconstructing their way of life and the battles they fought in compelling detail.

    The collapse of the former Western Roman Empire during the so called 'Dark Ages' c. AD 410 was gradual and piecemeal. Out of this vacuum arose regional tribes and leaders determined to take back kingdoms that were theirs and oust any Roman presence for good. However, the Roman guard was tenacious and survived in small pockets that emerged in both Gaul and Britain. These areas of Romano-Celtic resistance held out against the Saxons until at least the mid 6th century in Britain and against the Visigoths and the Merovingian Franks until the late 8th century in France.

    Drawing on archaeological finds, contemporary sculpture and manuscript illuminations, Dr Raffaele D'Amato presents contemporary evidence for 5th to 9th-century Gallic and British 'Dark Age' armies and reconstructs their way of life and the battles they fought. The text, accompanied by photographs and colour illustrations, paints an intricate picture of how these disparate groups of Roman soldiers survived and adapted on the fringes of the Roman Empire.

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    Table of Contents:

    INTRODUCTION
    Sub-Roman and post-Roman - Sources
    SELECT CHRONOLOGY
    POST-ROMAN GAUL
    Historical background: the Patricii - Armorica - The Arborychi - Southern Gaul
    Military organization - Armies of the Patricii - Armorica and Brittany - Post-Roman enclaves and cities
    POST-ROMAN BRITAIN
    Historical background: the warlords - Ambrosius - Arthur
    Kingdoms - Bryneichn - Reghed and Cumbria - Elmet - Gododdin - Strathclyde - Gwynedd, Dyfed and Powys - Dumnonia - Other Romano-British enclaves
    Military organization - Warlord armies - Romano-British kingdoms - Teulu, Gosgordd and Nifer - Size of armies
    EQUIPMENT, ARMS & CLOTHING
    Gallo-Roman Patricii armies - Helmets - Body armour - Weapons - Other equipment - Military dress - Germanic equipment
    Brittany and Armorica - Helmets - Armour and shields - Weapons - Horse equipment - Military dress
    British warlord armies - Helmets - Body armour - Shields - Military belts - Weapons: Spears - Swords - Daggers and knives - Axes
    Cavalry warfare and equipment - Standards
    Post-Roman kingdoms - Helmets - Armour - Shields - Weapons - Cavalry warfare - Military dress
    SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
    INDEX

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    D?Amato, Raffaele;

    7 586 HUF

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