Roman Britain and Celtic Ireland in Gr nd Roman Sources (AD 60-500)

Dr Raoul McLaughlin presents ancient sources for the Atlantic Celts, providing new, annotated translations of Roman texts.These describe contact and conflict between Rome and the Celtic peoples of Britain and Ireland.This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the Celtic peoples of northern Europe, or the military and economic development of the Roman frontiers. Roman forces conquered southern Britain in AD 43, establishing a seaboard province facing Gaul and the militarised Rhine frontier.But external threats and mass revolts revealed how easily this condensed province could be eradicated by warfare.Further expansion followed, but the Roman Empire struggled to locate and establish secure northern and western limits to Britannia.Despite large-scale military and political efforts, the Romans never conquered or fully subjugated the Celtic territories on the Atlantic edge of EuropeThis book contains ancient sources ranging from AD 60 and the Boudiccan Revolt, to the disinteg