Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070 by Robin Fleming

 

Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070 by Robin Fleming

https://www.amazon.com/Britain-After-Rome-Fall-Rise/dp/014014823X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2AU06D0CS2E4I&keywords=britain+after+rome&qid=1688678225&s=books&sprefix=britian+after+rome%2Cstripbooks%2C111&sr=1-1

I picked up this interesting history in a thrift shop. I’m a history buff, and am interested in the period, having read Bernard Cornwell’s great “Last Kingdom” series. This is a different kind of history, focused more on how the common people lived and died, than kings, warlords, or prelates. It is based on the evidence of archology, rather than the few surviving manuscripts of the period, most of which had an obvious, biased agenda. It details the spread of Christianity through the Saxons, Angles, and eventually the Danes. It examines grave finds to determine trade routes and customs. In one grave yard, 50% of the women who were alive at 15 were dead by 25. (Men lived longer than women then, reversed now.) it will make you glad you didn’t live in the “romantic” middle ages. I recommend this book to folks serious about learning history.

 

 

Robert A. Hall

Amazon author, “Quotes for the Conservative Heart.”