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| List of Plates | |
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| List of Text Figures | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| Revised preface, 1987 | |
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| The Nature of the Evidence | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Manuscripts | |
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| Easter Annals | |
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| Narrative history | |
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| Inscriptions | |
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| Genealogies | |
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| Homilies and other religious tracts | |
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| Laws | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Three Key Texts | |
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| De excidio Britanniae | |
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| The British Historical Miscellany | |
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| The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | |
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| The Arthurian Documents | |
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| The evidence of Easter Annals | |
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| The evidence of the Historia Brittonum | |
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| Some other potentially early evidence | |
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| The Glastonbury exhumation | |
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| Some general considerations | |
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| The Historical Background, AD 367-490 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Roman Britain and her problems | |
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| Independent Britain | |
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| The Saxon revolt and its aftermath | |
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| The Historical Background, AD 490-634 | |
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| The aftermath of Badon | |
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| The early history of Wessex | |
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| The other English kingdoms | |
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| Celtic kingdoms of the west and north | |
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| Early Christianity in Britain | |
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| From Chester to Denisesburna | |
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| The Archaeological Background: The Nature of the Evidence | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Preservation | |
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| Discovery | |
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| Excavation | |
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| Typology | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Topography | |
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| The Culture of Roman and Sub-Roman Britain | |
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| The material culture of Roman Britain | |
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| Change and continuity | |
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| The early fifth century | |
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| The Culture of the Britons, AD 450-650 | |
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| Dating evidence, AD 450-650 | |
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| Secular sites, principally with imported pottery | |
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| Artefacts and activities | |
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| Religious monuments | |
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| The Enemies of the Britons I: Picts and Scots | |
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| The Scotti in Ireland | |
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| The Scotti in Britain | |
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| The Picts | |
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| The Enemies of the Britons 2: the English | |
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| The ancestral English | |
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| The pagan English: the evidence of cemeteries | |
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| The evidence of settlements | |
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| The conversion of the English | |
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| Relations between Britons and English | |
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| Economy, Society and Warfare | |
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| The economy of the Britons and their enemies | |
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| Heroic society | |
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| Weapons, tactics and strategy | |
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| Arthur and Britain | |
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| Bibliography and References | |
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| Supplementary Bibliography, 1987 | |
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| Index | |