Romano-British culture

Relative degrees of Romanisation, based on archaeology. Romanisation was greatest in the southeast, extending west and north in lesser degrees. West of a line from the Humber to the Severn, and including Cornwall and Devon, Roman acculturation was minimal or non-existent.

The Romano-British culture arose in Britain under the Roman Empire following the Roman conquest in AD 43 and the creation of the province of Britannia. It arose as a fusion of the imported Roman culture with that of the indigenous Britons, a people of Celtic language and custom.[1]

Scholars such as Christopher Snyder believe that during the 5th and 6th centuries – approximately from 410 when the Roman legions withdrew, to 597 when St Augustine of Canterbury arrived – southern Britain preserved an active sub-Roman culture[2] that survived the attacks from the Anglo-Saxons and even used a vernacular Latin when writing.[3]

  1. ^ Shotter, David (2 August 2004). Roman Britain (0 ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203622926. ISBN 978-0-203-62292-6.
  2. ^ Snyder, Christopher A. (1997). "A gazetteer of Sub-Roman Britain (AD 400-600): The British sites". Internet Archaeology (3). University of York. doi:10.11141/ia.3.2.
  3. ^ Evans, D. Ellis (31 January 1983), Haase, Wolfgang (ed.), "Language Contact in Pre-Roman and Roman Britain", Sprache und Literatur (Sprachen und Schriften [Forts.]), Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, doi:10.1515/9783110847031-008, ISBN 978-3-11-084703-1