The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain

Why did Rome abandon Britain in the early 5th century? According to Neil Faulkner, the centralized, military-bureaucratic state, governed by a class of super-rich landlords and apparatchiks, had siphoned wealth out of the province, with the result that the towns declined and the countryside was depressed. When the army withdrew to defend the imperial heartlands, the remaining Romano-British elite succumbed to a combination of warlord power, barbarian attack, and popular revolt.

Neil Faulkner is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

Acknowledgements	p. 6
The illustrations	p. 7
Introduction	p. 10
The making of Roman Britain	p. 13
The north-west frontier	p. 36
Britain under the Pax Romana	p. 54
The end of the ancient world	p. 80
The late Roman counter-revolution	p. 97
Grandees, gentry and peasants in late Roman Britain	p. 121
The fall of Roman Britain	p. 158
A chronology for Roman Britain	p. 181
Select bibliography	p. 185
Index	p. 188
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