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List of Plates. List of Figures. List of Maps. List of Tables.Preface. Abbreviations. 1. Who are the Britons? Britons and the GreatCeltic Debate. Historiography and Methodology. Part I: Romans and Britons:2. Late Pre-Roman Iron Age. The Earliest Britons. Hallstatt and La Tene.The Belgae. Oppida and Proto-Urbanism in Britain. Caesar and the Britons.British Tribes and the Rise of the Catuvellauni. 3. The Roman Period. TheClaudian conquest. British Client Kings. Caratacus. Boudica. Militaryexpansion and Romanization. Organizing the Britons. Farming and RuralSettlement. Language in Roman Britain. Religion. 4. Late Roman Britain.Military and Political Events. Towns Great and Small. Hill-forts and theNative Aristocracy. Forts and Foederati. The Picts and the Scots. BritonsAbroad. The British Tyrants. Part II: The Brittonic Age: 5. Britons andSaxons. Sources and Evidence. An Historical Narrative? A New Model for theAdventus Saxonum. The Historical Arthur Debate. Towns and Hill-forts.Kings and Tyrants. 6. The British Church. The Origins of Christianity inBritain. The Late Roman Church. Pelagius and Pelagianism in Britain.Patrick. Gildas. Monasticism and the Penitentials. The Age of the Saints.Postscript: The Synod of Whitby. Part III: A People Divided: 7. Brittanyand Galicia. Galicia. From Armorica to Brittany. Riothamus and Sidonius.The Bretons Church. Bretons and Franks. Brittany and the CarolingianEmpire. Redon and Local Administration. Ducal Brittany. 8. Cornwall andthe Southwest. The Southwest. The Cornovii and the Dumnonii. Tintagel andDumnonian Kingship. Athelstan and West Saxon Expansion. The Cornish Saints.9. Wales and the Isle of Man. Historical Narrative. Welsh Kings andKingdoms. The Llandaff Charters and Roman Survival in Southern Wales.Hill-forts and Trade. The Irish in Wales and Man. The Welsh Church. 10.Northern Britons. The Parisii. The Brigantes. The Carvetii. Britonsbeyond the Wall: the Novantae, the Selgovae, the Damnonii, and the Votadini.British Survival along Hadrian's Wall. Elmet. Deira and Bernicia. Rheged.Gododdin. Strathclyde. The 'Heroic Society' of the North. Part IV:Conquest, Survival, and Revival: 11. Normans and Britons. Bretons and theNorman Conquest. The Marcher Lords and the first Welsh Rebellions. Geoffreyof Monmouth. Arthur and the Plantagenets. Gerald of Wales. WelshNationalism and the Two Llywelyns. Edward I and Wales. Owain Glyn D r. 12.Language and Literature. The Development of the Brittonic Languages.British Latin Writers. The Bard in the Early Middle Ages. The Cynfeirdd.'The Great Prophecy of Britain'. The Welsh Triads. The Mabinogi. The BretonLais. Welsh Chronicles and Histories. The Last of the Royal Bards. Dafyddap Gwilym. 13. Conclusion. The Loss of Sovereignty. Antiquarian Revival.Nationalism, Separatist Groups, and Devolution. The Britons in Perspective.Chronology of Events. Bibliography. Index.