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Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain. The occupation lasted from AD 43 to AD 410.
One aspect of Roman influence seen in British life was the grant of Roman citizenship. [14] At first this was granted very selectively: to the council members of certain classes of towns, whom Roman practice made citizens; to veterans, either legionaries or soldiers in auxiliary units; and to a number of natives whose patrons obtained citizenship for them.
Life in Roman Britain (1972) Lives of the Later Caesars (1976) The Fasti of Roman Britain, Clarendon Press (1981) Septimius Severus: The African Emperor (1972, revised edition 1988) Roman Papers, vol. 6, by Ronald Syme, edited by A. R. Birley (Clarendon Press 1991) The People of Roman Britain (1992) Marcus Aurelius: a Biography, London ...
Britannia Prima or Britannia I (Latin for "First Britain") was one of the provinces of the Diocese of "the Britains" created during the Diocletian Reforms at the end of the 3rd century. [1] It was probably created after the defeat of the usurper Allectus by Constantius Chlorus in AD 296 and was mentioned in the c. 312 Verona List of
The wooden tablets found at Vindolanda were the first known surviving examples of the use of ink letters in the Roman period. The use of ink tablets was documented in contemporary records; Herodian in the 3rd century describes "a writing-tablet of the kind that were made from lime-wood, cut into thin sheets and folded face-to-face by being bent".
In Roman Britain, the church primarily served as the place where the Eucharist was celebrated. [45] It also had overlapping functions, for instance as a meeting place, a place of group worship, and a place for solitary prayer. [45] Unlike later medieval Britain, Roman Britain lacked a dense network of parish churches. [46]
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The journal covers research on the province of Roman Britain, Iron Age and post-Roman Britain, and western provincial archaeology, as well as excavation reports. It was established because of the large increase in archaeological excavations, increased publication costs, and in order to establish coherence to the field of Roman Britain. [2]