Barbarians

Rome Is Falling..It Is The Time Of The BarbariansConventional History Portrays The Dark Ages As An Ominous Period Precipitated By The Fall Of RomeWe Are Led To Believe That The Torch Of Civilisation Flickered Only In Isolated Monasteries That Dotted The Landscape Of AEurope Otherwise Engulfed In DarknessBarbarians: Secrets Of The Dark Ages Challenges The Accepted View Of Events Passed Down To Us By The Roman Accounts Of The Barbarian WorldThe Romans, Like Every Imperial Power, Had AVested Interest In Propagating Their Own View Of History But If We Read Between The Lines And Delve Deep Into The Archaeological Record Multiple Cultural Vistas Emerge From The Shadows Of RomeOur Own Ancestors Were Much More Than Barbarians Their Languages, Arts And Other Cultural Treasures Have Shaped And Moulded The Destiny Of Europe More Than The Roman Empire That Once Held Them In Its Vicelike GripIt Is The Ethnic Mosaic Of The Huns, Goths, Vandals, Anglosaxons, Vikings And Others That The Author Reveals In This Retelling Of An Often Misunderstood Time In Our Collective History'it Is Rare That AHistorical Documentary Can Genuinely Shake Your View Of The World, But By Pointing Out Western Stifling Reverence For Roman Culture, Rudgley Succeeds' Sunday Times 'the Barbarian Societies Of The Dark Ages Were To Provide The Fertile Soil From Which The Nation States Of Today Were Eventually To GrowAnd This Very Soil Continues To Yield Up Artefacts That Testify To The Great Cultural Achievements Of The Barbarians.' P Richard Rudgley Is ACritically Acclaimed Author And Tv Presenter Whose Books Have Been Translated Into Twelve LanguagesHe Was Born In Hampshire, England In After Receiving AFirst Class Degree In Social Anthropology And Religious Studies At The University Of London, He Continued His Studies In Ethnology, Museum Ethnography And Prehistory At The University Of OxfordIn He Became The First Winner Of The British Museum Prometheus Award Which Resulted In The Publication Of His First Book, Essential Substances: ACultural History Of IntoxicantsHis Equally Wellreceived Book, The Encyclopaedia Of Psychoactive Substances, Was Published In In The Same Year His Book Lost Civilisations Of The Stone Age Presented Overwhelming Evidence That The Historical Civilisations Owed AMuch Greater Cultural Debt To Their Prehistoric Ancestors Than Is Generally AcceptedHe Has Written And Presented Several Documentaries That
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