Boudica : Iron Age warrior queen / / Richard Hingley and Christina Unwin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789511003321
• Autore: Hingley Richard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Hambledon Continuum, , 2006; ©2005
• ISBN: 1-283-20198-4; 9786613201980; 0-8264-4060-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 936.2/04/092
• Soggetti: Queens - Great Britain; Women soldiers - Great Britain; Iceni - Queens; Great Britain History Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D Biography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE: BOUDICA; 1 Iron Age and Roman Britain; 2 The Classical Sources; 3 The Archaeological Evidence; PART TWO: BOADICEA; 4 Finding Boadicea; 5 Subordination; 6 Imperial Icon; 7 In the Modern World; 8 A Woman of Many Faces; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y
• Sommario/riassunto: Boudica, or Boadicea, queen of the Iceni, led a famous revolt against Roman rule in Britain in AD 60, sacking London, Colchester and St Albans and throwing the province into chaos. Although then defeated by the governor, Suetonius Paulinus, her rebellion sent a shock wave across the empire. Who was this woman who defied Rome? Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen is an account of what we know about the real woman, from classical literature, written for the consumption of readers in Rome, and from the archaeological evidence. It also traces her extraordinary posthumous career as the earliest famous w