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Daily Life in Arthurian Britain

Daily Life in Arthurian Britain

Shepherd, Deborah

Hardcover

Series: Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0313332959
ISBN13: 9780313332951
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: Aug 31 2013
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

This book surveys current archaeological and historical thinking about the dimly understood characteristics of daily life in Great Britain during the fifth and sixth centuries.

Arthurian legends are immensely popular and well known despite the lack of reliable documentation about this time period in Britain. As a result, historians depend upon archaeologists to accurately describe life during these two centuries of turmoil when Britons suffered displacement by Germanic immigrants.

Daily Life in Arthurian Britain examines cultural change in Britain through the fifth and sixth centuries--anachronistically known as The Dark Ages--with a focus on the fate of Romano-British culture, demographic change in the northern and western border lands, and the impact of the Germanic immigrants later known as the Anglo-Saxons. The book coalesces many threads of current knowledge and opinion from leading historians and archaeologists, describing household composition, rural and urban organization, food production, architecture, fashion, trades and occupations, social classes, education, political organization, warfare, and religion in Arthurian times. The few available documentary sources are analyzed for the cultural and historical value of their information.

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