Under another sky
Subtitle: journeys in Roman Britain
By: Charlotte Higgins
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: W F Howes Ltd
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781471256875
Subjects: Romans in literature; Large type books; History
Description: This is a book about the encounter with Roman Britain: about what the idea of 'Roman Britain' has meant to those who came after Britain's 400-year stint as province of Rome - from the medieval mythographer-historian Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edward Elgar and W.H. Auden. What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Charlotte Higgins has traced these tales by setting out to discover the remains of Roman Britain for herself, sometimes on foot, sometimes in a splendid, though not particularly reliable, VW campervan.
Notes: Standard print edition originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2013.