In this book, the author makes use of the methodology he developed in Origins of Arthurian Romances (McFarland 2012) in order to reevaluate the post-Roman history of Britain. He begins by delving into the historical contexts of the key traditional players of the fifth century--Hengest and Gwrtheyrn. A better understanding of these two characters allows for a reexamination of the persons and events of the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries. The text that follows entirely realigns how those centuries can be seen from a chronological as well as a military and political standpoint. The fifth…mehr
In this book, the author makes use of the methodology he developed in Origins of Arthurian Romances (McFarland 2012) in order to reevaluate the post-Roman history of Britain. He begins by delving into the historical contexts of the key traditional players of the fifth century--Hengest and Gwrtheyrn. A better understanding of these two characters allows for a reexamination of the persons and events of the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries. The text that follows entirely realigns how those centuries can be seen from a chronological as well as a military and political standpoint. The fifth century was not a time of British and Germanic fragmentation as they separated from Rome, but one of slow integration and the formation of kingships that were a result of the economic realities of surviving without the dying giant.
Flint F. Johnson is an independent scholar whose academic areas of interest include post-Roman British history, Heroic Age Greek and Norse history, and the cultures existing before the first river valley civilizations. He lives in Hudson, Wisconsin.
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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 Sources 16. 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
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 Sources 16. 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
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