... industrial extraction, several English-language poems – specifically sonnets – present the Menai Bridge in picturesque terms; they displace technological materiality and modernity in favour of timeless beauty, drawing on popular r(R)omantic images of the Celtic fringe. ⁹ Britannia, by contrast...

...This chapter offers a close reading of the work of male writers on feminine beauty in Britannia and Eve, examining how authorial voice functions to make the masculine subject fully present in the magazine even where it is ostensibly marginal; men become the absent presence...

... as the northern border of the province of Britannia. The arrival of the codified legal system of Roman law, its enforcement through the Roman administrative system, and the appearance of legal documents also had a major impact on life in Britain. Boudica London Londinium Tacitus Cornelius Roman historian...

...This chapter addresses the ways in which Roman colonization operated within the Roman Empire’s province of Britannia during the first century CE, and analyzes theoretical aproaches to colonialism, colonisation, Romanisation, and imperalism. Roman colonies were formally established settlements...

.... The translations of Britannia and of his Annales of Elizabeth, not translations which he undertook personally, served to create an educated rather than learned English readership which appropriated his scholarship and turned it into a piece of English apartness, exceptionality...

...In the first section of this chapter, the date of the first division of Britain into Britannia Superior and Britannia Inferior is discussed. Despite Herodian’s statement that this took place straight after Severus’ defeat of Albinus (i.e., in AD 217), Herodian is shown to be unreliable. Additional...

... that create a complex nexus of elite and quasi‐public culture. Drawing examples from Jonson's Golden Age Restored, Davenant's Britannia Triumphans, the court pastoral Florimène (designed by Jones), and Shakespeare's Tempest, this chapter...

...This introduction establishes the aims and scope of the book, sketching out the narrative arc and providing a chapter breakdown. Using some key images of Britannia, the introduction argues that Britannia gains new life and importance in the years following the Glorious Revolution of 1688...

...The conclusion discusses the shift in depictions of Britannia in graphic art and monuments towards a pacific, mourning figure. It looks at ways in which Britannia is represented as mourning Nelson and her role in the memorialising of this national hero. It then discusses the legacy...

... rapidly become the (written) language of cursing in the western provinces (particularly well attested in Britannia). Curse tablets embody an extra-legal form of self-help and were particularly employed, with urgency and emotion, to punish theft, which was a civil-law delict under Roman law for which...

..., or restrict its cover to just one class. An example of the former is provided by the Britannia Steam Ship Insurance Association Ltd. while the three United Kingdom clubs provide an example of the latter structure. The precise scope of the cover provided by any given club depends ultimately upon the true...

... society Iron Age London Silchester Verulamium Vindolanda civitas capitals civitates Oceanus Britannia Julius Caesar Alexander Hercules classical texts archaeological discoveries geography Why should a distant island beyond the north-western edge of the Roman Empire have become the target...

...) that would serve to describe and explain how humans “process task-oriented symbolic information.” In other words, human problem solving, in their view, is an instance of representing information as symbols and processing them. Adaptive behavior Britannia Bridge CDC Cyber Database Expert system...

... in the angle of the rivers, and by linking it with roads across the Vale of York to their two main north–south highways; and it was they who made it central to their control of northern Britain. It was entirely appropriate that when the province of Britannia was divided during the reign...

...This chapter focuses on two specific geographic areas of the Roman empire, Britain and the Iberian Peninsula, corresponding to the provinces of Britannia, Baetica, Tarraconensis, and Lusitania. The aim of this study is to analyse if and to what extent the rank-size rule can be applied...

...The author leaves the Cape and embarks on board the Britannia. He describes the ship and the character of its captain; discovers St Helena and describes the island, town, and fortifications, as well as the hospitable and friendly conduct of the Governor. He leaves St Helena, passes...

... vehemence, while still exploiting his detailed account of the lands and seas he saw. Despite this the value of his astronomical observations was recognized by some of the greatest minds of antiquity and as a result his place in the development of the geographical sciences is assured. Agricola Britannia...

... as a Conservative paean should by no means be exaggerated: the Last Night of the Proms continued its merry course—although not without controversy, as when Mark Elder was replaced by Sir John Drummond as conductor in 1990 because he did not wish to perform ‘Rule, Britannia’ and ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ during...

...Historically, literature dealing with the Roman military occupation in Britannia over the first four centuries AD did not address the experiences of individuals or communities. This chapter joins a growing body of scholarship that has turned to theories of identity—incorporating notions of agency...

... section explains the notions of “discrepant experience” of empire and the existence of “discrepant identities” within provincial communities. The third and fourth sections illustrate this theme with reference to two provincial areas: Britannia and Tripolitana. In exploring issues like religion...