The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles, 350-650

(, New edition)

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A lifetime's scholarship enabled John Morris to recreate a past hitherto hidden in myth and mystery. In this reissued edition, he describes the Arthurian age as "the starting point of future British history", for it saw the transition from Roman Britain to Great Britain.

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John Morris was the first professional historian to undertake a comprehensive assessment of the scattered evidence concerning the infant years of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, their influence on each other and their relationship with Europe. The Age of Arthur is now the classic account of the British Isles from the fourth to the seventh centuries. Senior Lecturer in AncientHistory at University College, London, the late Dr John Morris founded the journal Past and Present in 1952 and was its first editor. He initiated a major new edition of the Doomsday Book and, with A.H.M. Jones, the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. His last book, Londinium: London in the Roman Empir