Morris_Dancer

Lack of evidence doesn't prove the alternative, though. Would nascent Romano-British rulers willingly cede to new Anglo-Saxon arrivals? (View Post)

Diocletian (3rd century) changed the law so that sons had to follow fathers into a given profession. That also had a feudalistic element. Edited extra bit: unsure if this was blanket or only applied … (View Post)

One view is that soldiers settled on farms when legions were demobilised ended up selling to the wealthy, leading to massive estates. In the long term, this helped weaken the natural source of native… (View Post)

Would that be a shock at this point? (View Post)

I'll be honest, I know more about the Gothic foederati of the 5th and 6th centuries than I do about ones stationed in Britain. Not a huge shock to me Anglo-Saxons were used that way, but a large scal… (View Post)