
The Age of Arthur
A History of the British Isles, 350-650
John Morris(Author)
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History (Publisher)
Published on 13. January 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
688 pages
978-1-85799-286-1 (ISBN)
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Description
A lifetime's scholarship enabled John Morris to recreate a past hitherto hidden in myth and mystery. In this reissued edition, he describes the Arthurian age as "the starting point of future British history", for it saw the transition from Roman Britain to Great Britain.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 50 mm
Weight
1019 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85799-286-1 (9781857992861)
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08/1993
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
€36.10
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Person
John Morris was the first professional historian to undertake a comprehensive assessment of the scattered evidence concerning the infant years of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, their influence on each other and their relationship with Europe. The Age of Arthur is now the classic account of the British Isles from the fourth to the seventh centuries. Senior Lecturer in AncientHistory at University College, London, the late Dr John Morris founded the journal Past and Present in 1952 and was its first editor. He initiated a major new edition of the Doomsday Book and, with A.H.M. Jones, the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. His last book, Londinium: London in the Roman Empir