03-11-2013, 08:20 PM
I started off reading 'The Lantern Bearers' by Rosemary Sutcliffe combined with school visits to Caerwent & those great late Roman walls - far more impressive to a nine year old than the little piles of stone in the early barracks at nearby Caerleon!!!
When the TV series 'Arthur of the Britons' came out too, I was hooked. Kept reading about it - then
started doing 5th/6th century 'post-Roman' reenactment and went backwards to the 4th/5th, like Robert.
Magister Militum Flavius Aetius wrote:
Anyway, why portray the bullying thugs of the expansionist early empire :wink: when you can re-enact the late period and be a hero struggling to mantain the light of civilisation against the gathering dark.
When the TV series 'Arthur of the Britons' came out too, I was hooked. Kept reading about it - then
started doing 5th/6th century 'post-Roman' reenactment and went backwards to the 4th/5th, like Robert.
Magister Militum Flavius Aetius wrote:
Quote: 5th Century is Late Roman too, Robert.Not here in sweet Britannia where Vortigern hung out!!!
Anyway, why portray the bullying thugs of the expansionist early empire :wink: when you can re-enact the late period and be a hero struggling to mantain the light of civilisation against the gathering dark.
Semisalis Abruna of the Batavi iuniores Britanniciani
aka Nick Marshall
aka Nick Marshall
