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Britain AD: A Quest for Arthur, England and the Anglo-Saxons
by: Francis Pryor

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 941
EAN: 9780007181872
ISBN: 0007181876
Label: Element Books
Manufacturer: Element Books
Number Of Pages: 268
Publication Date: September 05, 2005
Publisher: Element Books
Studio: Element Books
Sales Rank: 14970

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Irritating
I found this book so irritating and contradictory that I started writing angry notes (in biro) in the margin, and I'm not even an archaeologist! Pryor takes the evidence he wants and ignores the rest. When he has something sensible to say about cultural influences through the ages, for example, the flow of ideas rather than just people he is on well-trodden ground. When he has something new to say it comes out as garbled nonsense. He allows his pre-history background to cloud his judgement - almost to the point of not admitting any 'events' in history at all! "We know that rapid social change just does not happen" - what?!

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- Dogmatically unscientific
Pryor seems incapable of reading the work of anyone who does not subscribe to his own daft ideas and that includes pretty much all genetic studies.

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- Illuminating the "Dark Ages"
You don't want to argue with Francis Pryor. Not because he's likely bigger than you, but because your array of supportive information may not be on the top line. Pryor is a digger, for facts and artefacts, and brings fresh insight to what conditions actually prevailed in post-Roman Britain. Pryor's approach relies heavily on those artefacts and they tell him - and us - a tale rather removed from what we learned in school. In this finely-written and comprehensive account, Pryor effectively overturns a number of long-held assumptions to redraw the picture of the "Dark Ages".

Even here in North America, the Legend of King Arthur carried a prominent role in history and literature - not to mention film. The story rested on the underlying ... Read More:

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- Brilliant
No denying this subject raises a lot of questions. In the TV series by the same author a guest on the show raises the probability that King Arthur was invented to show what they would have liked to happen and this makes sense to me.
I have always thought that the 'Dark Ages' was a false term and now I can see it explained in great detail. If you like History to be told with a purpose this is for but if you if you think what you have been taught is undeniable then you should stick to the norm.

Good suff I say and I want more, lol.

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- great book
people keep mentioning the facts that the english speak a germanic language and that a lot of english males have the same y-chromosome as those on the continent proves the english are germanic people. well it doesn't! the anglo-saxons who conquered england were probably male warriors with far fewer women. they became the elite and probably out bred the celtic males, but breeding with celtic females. professor bryan sykes, in his book "the blood of the isles" argues that most of our genes come from iberia and Stephen Oppenheimer's book, also on genetics, "the origins of the british' argues the same. i live in england and nearly all my ancestors were from england, but i have a celtic surname and therefore a celtic y-chromosome does this make me celtic ... Read More:

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