Early Studies in Roman Britain: 1610 to 1906

Hingley, Richard

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697731.013.001

Early Studies in Roman Britain: 1610 to 1906

Hingley, Richard

Authors

Professor Richard Hingley richard.hingley@durham.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor

Contributors

Martin Millett
Editor

Louise Revell
Editor

Alison Moore
Editor

Abstract

This chapter provides a summary of changing interpretation of Roman Britain between 1586 and 1906. It commences with the interpretation of the history of the Roman province outlined by William Camden in his seminal account Britannia. It provides an exploration of two myths of origin that had a powerful role in England in the centuries following Camden: the idea that civilization in the lowlands commenced with the Roman Conquest and the contrasting idea that the Roman population of Britain were incomers from Italy and the Mediterranean. The chapter provides a summary of the way that the increasing knowledge of pre-Roman and Roman Britain was drawn upon by Francis Haverfield to produce his account of the Romanization of Roman Britain (1906). This influential idea of the civilizing of lowland Britons in Roman times created a tradition of archaeological research that dominated much of the twentieth century.

Citation

Hingley, R. (2016). Early Studies in Roman Britain: 1610 to 1906. In M. Millett, L. Revell, & A. Moore (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Roman Britain (3-21). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697731.013.001

Online Publication Date	Aug 4, 2014
Publication Date	Sep 1, 2016
Deposit Date	Mar 9, 2017
Publicly Available Date	Mar 10, 2017
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	3-21
Series Title	Oxford handbooks
Book Title	The Oxford handbook of Roman Britain.
Chapter Number	1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697731.013.001

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This is a draft of a chapter that was accepted for publication by Oxford University Press in the book 'The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain' edited by Martin Millett, Louise Revell, and Alison Moore and published in print in 2016.