HIST 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vindolanda Tablets, Stonehenge, Camulodunum
15 Jan 2019
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Office hours: monday 3-4:30 pm or by appointment. Emily emily_jakich@sfu. ca (put history 215 in the subject line) Old saram seen as a rotten barrier no ppl living here until years later. Stone henge part of the british isles fertile grounds. Worn around the kelt"s neck believed that they were worn by aristocrats. Boudicca revenge after daughter"s death comes into roman town camilodunum. Vindolanda tablets evidence of life on northern frontier. Roman town forgotten town for hundreds of years. Angles, saxon, jutes, frisians tribes coming from the vautan islands hold importance of kinship relationships, feasting, etc. Bunny fighting sea levels rise and they are being flooded out, thus they move into the british isles. Beowulf, old english epic c. 700-1000 ad central themes capture dominant worldview of the anglo-saxons, jutes and frisians. Wealah means slaves, used by britons and anglos, used toward the ancient britains.
