Boak, Arthur Edward RomillyBiblio.com
Casey, P JBiblio.com
CARAUSIUS AND ALLECTUS; The British Usurpers
19953219Yale University Press. 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Dustjacket has minor edgewear to top corners. Minor shelfwear to book.; 9.75 x 0.75 x 6.5 Inches; 232 pages; Translations of the texts by R. S. O. Tomlin. This book tells the history of the emperors Carausius and Allectus and their renegade regime in Roman Britain from A. D. 286 to 296. Drawing on literary archaeological and numismatic evidence Casey sets out the Continental and British background to their revolt establishes the importance of sea power and marine technology at the time and assesses the use of the two emperors as historical icons in periods of national crisis in British history. . 0300060629 . Yale University Press hardcover
