The Fall of Roman Britain

and Why We Speak English. Why was the Roman province of Britannia so comprehensively ruined?Why does the molecular data fail to correlate with archaeological data when dating the Saxon migrations?Why did the inhabitants of Britannia end up speaking a completely new tongue?Questions whether the province of Britannia was ever fully Romanized.Analyses the role of global climate patterns in the collapse of the Empire and Roman Britain in particular.This book synthesizes the latest evidence from historians, archaeologists, climatologists and biologists to arrive at a bold re-assesment of the end of Roman Britain