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Hengest, Gwrtheyrn and the chronology of post-Roman Britain /
"This work delves into the historical contexts of the key traditional players of the fifth century--Hengest and Gwrtheyrn. A better understanding of these characters allows for a reexamination of the persons and events of the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries. The text entirely realigns how t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction to the Source Material; 1. The Traditional History of Britain: 350-700; 2. The Primary Sources; 3. The Secondary Sources; 4. Guessing Date Ranges; 5. Saints and Nobility in the Sources; 6. Reconstructed British History; 7. Reconstructed Anglo-Saxon History; 8. The Kentish Source; 9. Ansehis, Hengest and the Kentish Line; 10. Gwrtheyrn, Vortigern and Outigern; 11. Ambrosius and Guitolin; 12. The Fifth Century; 13. A Reevaluation of Key Post-Roman Figures; 14. Applying Lesser Figures to the New Framework.
- 15. Pertinent Facts Drawn from the Primary Sources16. Celtic Genealogies and Date-Guessing; 17. Germanic Genealogies and Date-Guessing; 18. Pertinent Facts Drawn from the Secondary Sources; 19. Chief Interactive Peoples; 20. The Revised Celtic Genealogies; 21. The Revised Germanic Genealogies; 22. The Ecclesiastics; 23. The Other Figures and a Sequence of Historical Events; 24. The Heroic Age in Britain; 25. The Age of Saints; 26. Conclusion; Appendix; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index.