The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain

The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain
ISBN-10
0752428950
ISBN-13
9780752428956
Category
Great Britain
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2003-09
Publisher
Tempus Pub Limited
Author
Neil Faulkner

Description

Why did Rome abandon Britain in the early 5th century? According to Neil Faulkner, the centralized, military-bureaucratic state, governed by a class of super-rich landlords and apparatchiks, had siphoned wealth out of the province, with the result that the towns declined and the countryside was depressed. When the army withdrew to defend the imperial heartlands, the remaining Romano-British elite succumbed to a combination of warlord power, barbarian attack, and popular revolt.

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