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Title: The Lion and the Lamb
Author: John Henry Clay
Narrator: Daniel Philpott
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-04-13
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Britain, AD366
The island is at peace, enjoying an unprecedented age of prosperity. But from beyond the northern frontier come unsettling rumours: the barbarians are rising, eager to prey on the riches of the south. As the shadow of war looms, Cironius Agnus Paulus, a young soldier with a secret past, becomes ensnared in a conspiracy that endangers the home he has forsaken and the family he loves.
Epic in scope, rich with historical detail, this is a novel of Roman Britain on the cusp of the Dark Ages, when all that stands between her citizens and oblivion is one family.
Dr. John Henry Clay is a Lecturer in History at the University of Durham, from where he has built up an international research reputation in Anglo-Saxon and Frankish history and archaeology.
Members Reviews:
well researched novel
This look at post Roman Britain is a well researched novel thatgives a view of a society on the brink of extinction.The chaos that followed the Roman withdrawl is both entertaining and informative
Original and superb first
Received on 4 July 2013 from Amazon.co.uk
This is the author's first novel, and it is a remarkable one in many ways.
It is, as indicated on its cover "an epic novel of Roman Britain", but one that is set in the second half of the fourth century, during the little known "Barbarian Conspiracy" where several "barbarian" tribes and populations attacked Roman Britain simultaneously, at a time when most (if not all) of its field forces were away and campaigning on the Continent. The choice of topic is therefore somewhat original and makes this book stand out and different: it is not just another "epic novel of Roman Britain", or of the Roman Empire more generally.
The author's choice was to focus on the fate of a prominent Romano-Briton family, the intrigues and sorrows with which it is beset, and a lot about the Romano-Briton society and the way of living of the Romanized elites in Britain. You do get your share of "swords and sandals", but perhaps not as much as in some other books and the fights are mostly small affairs, as seems to have been the case by the end of the fourth century, as far as we know anyway.
The picture that the author draws of post-Constantine Britain is a harsh one, but a credible one, where limited manpower lead army press gangs to roam the countryside in search of recruits. It also shows the casual brutality with which these recruits could be treated in order to "toughen" them up and how major landowners got ever more powerful as they took lesser ones crushed by taxes under their protection. The picture of the developing, but not yet overwhelming, force of the Christian Church, the attitude of its often overbearing, superstitious and fanatical priests towards "pagans" (a derogatory term meaning "country bumpkins" in Latin) and the tensions that this could create with the followers of the old Gods are also very well presented.
This depiction of Roman Britain in the 360s is certainly one of the book's most outstanding features. Together with the events that it relates -the book starts towards the end of the reign of Julian and most of the action takes place in AD 366-367 - it also alludes to the recent past to provide lots of historical context (the usurpation of Magnentius, headquartered in Britain, and the repression in Britain after 353 AD, after Constantius victory, for instance).
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Title: The Lion and the Lamb
Author: John Henry Clay
Narrator: Daniel Philpott
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-04-13
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Britain, AD366
The island is at peace, enjoying an unprecedented age of prosperity. But from beyond the northern frontier come unsettling rumours: the barbarians are rising, eager to prey on the riches of the south. As the shadow of war looms, Cironius Agnus Paulus, a young soldier with a secret past, becomes ensnared in a conspiracy that endangers the home he has forsaken and the family he loves.
Epic in scope, rich with historical detail, this is a novel of Roman Britain on the cusp of the Dark Ages, when all that stands between her citizens and oblivion is one family.
Dr. John Henry Clay is a Lecturer in History at the University of Durham, from where he has built up an international research reputation in Anglo-Saxon and Frankish history and archaeology.
Members Reviews:
well researched novel
This look at post Roman Britain is a well researched novel thatgives a view of a society on the brink of extinction.The chaos that followed the Roman withdrawl is both entertaining and informative
Original and superb first
Received on 4 July 2013 from Amazon.co.uk
This is the author's first novel, and it is a remarkable one in many ways.
It is, as indicated on its cover "an epic novel of Roman Britain", but one that is set in the second half of the fourth century, during the little known "Barbarian Conspiracy" where several "barbarian" tribes and populations attacked Roman Britain simultaneously, at a time when most (if not all) of its field forces were away and campaigning on the Continent. The choice of topic is therefore somewhat original and makes this book stand out and different: it is not just another "epic novel of Roman Britain", or of the Roman Empire more generally.
The author's choice was to focus on the fate of a prominent Romano-Briton family, the intrigues and sorrows with which it is beset, and a lot about the Romano-Briton society and the way of living of the Romanized elites in Britain. You do get your share of "swords and sandals", but perhaps not as much as in some other books and the fights are mostly small affairs, as seems to have been the case by the end of the fourth century, as far as we know anyway.
The picture that the author draws of post-Constantine Britain is a harsh one, but a credible one, where limited manpower lead army press gangs to roam the countryside in search of recruits. It also shows the casual brutality with which these recruits could be treated in order to "toughen" them up and how major landowners got ever more powerful as they took lesser ones crushed by taxes under their protection. The picture of the developing, but not yet overwhelming, force of the Christian Church, the attitude of its often overbearing, superstitious and fanatical priests towards "pagans" (a derogatory term meaning "country bumpkins" in Latin) and the tensions that this could create with the followers of the old Gods are also very well presented.
This depiction of Roman Britain in the 360s is certainly one of the book's most outstanding features. Together with the events that it relates -the book starts towards the end of the reign of Julian and most of the action takes place in AD 366-367 - it also alludes to the recent past to provide lots of historical context (the usurpation of Magnentius, headquartered in Britain, and the repression in Britain after 353 AD, after Constantius victory, for instance).