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Tables of Contents for The Britons
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Plates
xi
List of Figures
xii
List of Maps
xiii
List of Tables
xiv
Preface
xv
Abbreviations
xvii
Who are the Britons?
1
8
Britons and the Great Celtic Debate
1
5
Historiography and Methodology
6
3
Part I Romans and Britons
9
64
The Late Pre-Roman Iron Age
11
18
The Earliest Britons
12
1
Hallstatt and La Tene
13
3
The Belgae
16
1
Oppida and Proto-urbanism in Britain
17
2
Caesar and the Britons
19
5
British Tribes and the Rise of the Catuvellauni
24
5
The Roman Period
29
25
The Claudian conquest
30
4
British Client Kings
34
2
Caratacus
36
3
Boudica
39
4
Military expansion and Romanization
43
4
Organizing the Britons
47
2
Farming and Rural Settlement
49
1
Language in Roman Britain
49
3
Religion
52
2
Late Roman Britain
54
19
Military and Political Events
54
9
Towns Great and Small
63
2
Hill-forts and the Native Aristocracy
65
1
Forts and Foederati
66
1
The Picts and the Scots
67
3
Britons Abroad
70
1
The British Tyrants
71
2
Part II The Brittonic Age
73
66
Britons and Saxons
75
30
Sources and Evidence
76
2
An Historical Narrative?
78
7
A New Model for the Adventus Saxonum
85
8
The Historical Arthur Debate
93
1
Towns and Hill-forts
94
6
Kings and Tyrants
100
5
The British Church
105
34
The Origins of Christianity in Britain
105
2
The Late Roman Church
107
6
Pelagius and Pelagianism in Britain
113
3
Patrick
116
5
Gildas
121
4
Monasticism and the Penitentials
125
3
The Age of the Saints
128
6
Postscript: The Synod of Whitby
134
5
Part III A People Divided
139
86
Brittany and Galicia
141
16
Galicia
142
3
From Armorica to Brittany
145
4
Riothamus and Sidonius
149
2
The Breton Church
151
1
Bretons and Franks
152
1
Brittany and the Carolingian Empire
153
1
Redon and Local Administration
154
1
Ducal Brittany
155
2
Cornwall and the Southwest
157
18
The Southwest
157
3
The Cornovii and the Dumnonii
160
3
Tintagel and Dumnonian Kingship
163
5
Æthelstan and West Saxon Expansion
168
2
The Cornish Saints
170
5
Wales and the Isle of Man
175
23
Historical Narrative
175
9
Welsh Kings and Kingdoms
184
7
The Llandaff Charters and Roman Survival in Southern Wales
191
1
Hill-forts and Trade
192
1
The Irish in Wales and Man
193
2
The Welsh Church
195
3
Northern Britons
198
27
The Parisii
199
1
The Brigantes
199
4
The Carvetii
203
2
Britons beyond the Wall: the Novantae, the Selgovae, the Damnonii, and the Votadini
205
1
British Survival along Hadrian's Wall
206
1
Elmet
207
3
Deira and Bernicia
210
3
Rheged
213
4
Gododdin
217
2
Strathclyde
219
2
The `Heroic Society' of the North
221
4
Part IV Conquest, Survival, and Revival
225
64
Normans and Britons
227
23
Bretons and the Norman Conquest
228
1
The Marcher Lords and the First Welsh Rebellions
229
2
Geoffrey of Manmouth
231
5
Arthur and the Plantagenets
236
3
Gerald of Wales
239
2
Welsh Nationalism and the Two Llywelyns
241
3
Edward I and Wales
244
2
Owain Glyn Dwr
246
4
Language and Literature
250
22
The Development of the Brittonic Languages
250
6
British Latin Writers
256
1
The Bard in the Early Middle Ages
256
2
The Cynfeirdd
258
4
`The Great Prophecy of Britain'
262
1
The Welsh Triads
263
1
The Mabinogi
263
3
The Breton Lais
266
2
Welsh Chronicles and Histories
268
1
The Last of the Royal Bards
269
1
Dafydd ap Gwilym
270
2
Conclusion
272
17
The Loss of Sovereignty
272
4
Antiquarian Revival
276
5
Nationalism, Separatists, and Devolution
281
2
The Britons in Perspective
283
6
Chronology of Events
289
8
Bibliography
297
21
Index
318