BRIT 1 Historians Quotes

Nostalgia for the Roman past is evident in the historical section

Gransen

flowering Romano-British villa civilisation was but a fleeting moment in the passage of time

Faulkner

Roman Brittania had been mostly fighting its own battles for at least 30 years

Kessler

Never perhaps had there been an age in which religious women exercised such great power

Talbot

The momentum of the conversion was carried by women

Leyser

The notion of a queen of queenship distinct from king ship was elusive

stafford

Any wealthy woman could advance the cause of monastic reform

Meyer

Legal change was bound up with kingdom growth

Wormhard

Attitude to honour rather than sin influenced the dispensation of justice

Lambert

Domesday is a triumph of medieval administration

Baxter

10th century saw the development of the framework necessary for kings to exercise control without being physically present

Montague

There is no reason to think that so earnest a character was guilty of barefaced lies

Etchingham

Patricks writings are notoriously deficient in some of the most basic matters of information

etchingham

more comfortable with compromise than fundamentalism

O’Brien

The people of western Britain are simply hard to find

Dark

The monasteries of Ireland became beacons of scholarship

Kavanagh

draws parallels between Celtic legend and St Brigid

Lawton

Smyth

Highlights use of the word parochia and Sedulius to prove Byrhtferth wrote the life

Howlett

One need not await Smyth’s attempt to prove this was a forgery”

Crawford

They were not threatened by intensive raiding

Keynes

Alfred could hardly have come to the throne under more difficult circumstances

Davis

Defeating the Vikings was not just a question of intelligence and skill, but of willpower and manpower