The Recovery of Roman Britain 1586–1906: a colony so fertile. By Richard Hingley. 216mm. Pp xiv + 389, 58 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 9780199237029. £75 (hbk). Imagining Roman Britain: Victorian responses to a Roman past. By Virginia Hoselitz. 234mm. Pp. xii + 208, 8 ills. Woodbridge: Royal Historical Society and Boydell Press, 2007. ISBN 9780861932931. £50 (hbk).

摘要

These two books have in common the history ofnthe discovery of Roman Britain and its intel-nlectual context. However, whereas Hoselitz isnconcerned with a relatively short period, thenfirst half of the Victorian era from the 1840stonthe 1860s, Hingley’s range is much wider,nextending over more than three centuries fromthe very beginning of the systematic enquiryninto Britain’s early history, with the publicationnof the first edition of William Camden’s Brit-nannia in 1586, right up to the beginning of thentwentieth century and the first publication ofnFrancis Haverfield’s highly influential lecture onn‘The Romanization of Roman Britain’ in 1906.