Coins and Power in Late Iron Age Britain

by John Creighton

• ISBN13: 9780521114516
• ISBN10: 0521114519
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-25
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book deals with Britain in the centuries immediately before the Roman conquest: a period when the first individuals appeared in British history, and when a series of dynasties emerged to take control of much of Southern Britain. Combining archaeological, literary and numismatic evidence, it paints a vivid picture of how people in Late Iron Age Britain reacted to the changing world around them, and how rulers bolstered their power through use of imagery on coins, myths, language, and material culture. It includes illustrations of 246 Iron Age coins and a separate coin index.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Middle to Late Iron Age transition

Coin and the representation of individual authority

The Southern and Eastern Kingdoms

Classical imagery and ideology in Britain

The location of Britain in the Roman world

Legends and language

Dynasties and identities

Conclusion and epilogue: from Britain to Britannia

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