Britain BC / Britain AD


	Britain BC / Britain AD

Spiritualmonkey

9-16-2009 2:30 PM

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rome, britain, norman-conquest, king-arthur, dark-ages, archaeology, history

Spiritualmonkey says:

Episode 1 of 2 (BC) and 1 of 3 (AD). Fascinating new understandings of British culture, history, and archaeology.

Rather than being solely the inheritors of Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Norman invaders, Pryor demonstrates that there was a sophisticated homegrown British culture that didn't just roll over when the next group of heavily-armed foreigners in boats showed up. And that in the absence of outside "civilizers" Britons didn't just revert to mud-wallowing barbarians.

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