(Ebook) Boudica. The British Revolt Against Rome AD 60 by Graham Webster ISBN 9780415226066, 0415226066

(Ebook) Boudica. The British Revolt Against Rome AD 60 by Graham Webster ISBN 9780415226066, 0415226066

First published I978 by B.T. Batsford Ltd. Revised edition 1993. Reprinted 1999, 2003, 2004 by Routledge.The Queen, who is known to most as Boadicea, has a place of her own in the ill-assorted pageant of folk heroes and heroines which passes in the popular mind for the history of Britain. Yet she was unknown to the medieval historians like Geoffrey of Monmouth, since they had no knowledge of the works of the Roman historian Tacitus. So the legendary figures of Bladud, King Lucius and Old King Cole held the field until the early sixteenth century. By then the manuscripts of Tacitus had been found by Boccacio in the neglected library of Monte Cassino and published in Italy. With so much new and authentic information about the early history of Britain, Polydore Virgil was able in 1534 to demolish the fanciful legends of medieval creation and set the period on a firm foundation of fact. In spite of this there were many British 'patriots' who vigorously defended the old stories and they made some headway in attacking Polydore Virgil's serious topographic errors.