Richard Hingley, Christina Unwin

Boudica (eBook, PDF)

Iron Age Warrior Queen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Boudica, or Boadicea, queen of the Iceni, led a famous revolt against Roman rule in Britain in AD 60, sacking London, Colchester and St Albans and throwing the province into chaos. Although then defeated by the governor, Suetonius Paulinus, her rebellion sent a shock wave across the empire. Who was this woman who defied Rome? Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen is an account of what we know about the real woman, from classical literature, written for the consumption of readers in Rome, and from the archaeological evidence. It also traces her extraordinary posthumous career as the earliest famous woman in British history. Since the Renaissance she has been seen as harridan, patriot, freedom fighter and feminist, written about in plays and novels, painted and sculpted, and recruited to many causes. She remains a tragic, yet inspirational, figure of unending interest.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826440600
• Artikelnr.: 40780013

Autorenporträt

Richard Hingley is Emeritus Professor of Roman Archaeology at Durham University, UK. He is the author of Hadrian's Wall: A Life (2012), Londinium: A Biography (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) and Conquering the Ocean: The Roman Invasion of Britain (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Boudica 1 Iron Age
and Roman Britain 2 The Classical Sources 3 The Archaeological Evidence
Part Two: Boadicea 4 Finding Boadicea 5 Subordination 6 Imperial Icon 7 In
the Modern World 8 A Woman of Many Faces Notes References Index