Book description
Terry Jones' Barbarians takes a completely fresh approach to
Roman history. Not only does it offer us the chance to see the Romans
from a non-Roman perspective, it also reveals that most of those
written off by the Romans as uncivilized, savage and barbaric were in
fact organized, motivated and intelligent groups of people, with no
intentions of overthrowing Rome and plundering its Empire.
This original and fascinating study does away with the propaganda
and opens our eyes to who really established the civilized world.
Delving deep into history, Terry Jones and Alan Ereira uncover the
impressive cultural and technological achievements of the Celts,
Goths, Persians and Vandals.
In this paperback edition, Terry and Alan travel through 700 years
of history on three continents, bringing wit, irreverence, passion and
scholarship to transform our view of the legacy of the Roman Empire
and the creation of the modern world.
Terry Jones is best known as a member of Monty Python but he
has also written four books on medieval England: Chaucer's
Knight, the highly acclaimed Who Murdered Chaucer?,
Crusades and Terry Jones' Medieval Lives, which
accompanied a major television series he presented in 2004. He is the
author of several children's books including Fairy Tales and
Fantastic Stories, The Knight and the Squire and The
Lady and the Squire. He has directed several feature films:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Life of Brian,
The Meaning of Life, Personal Services, Erik the
Viking and The Wind in the Willows. Terry presented the
four-part television series Barbarians in 2006.
Alan Ereira has worked as an award-winning producer and
writer of history programmes on radio and television for over 40
years, and has collaborated with Terry for ten years on a number of
historical films. His previous books include The People's
England, The Invergordon Mutiny, The Heart of the
World and (with Terry Jones) Crusades and Terry Jones'
Medieval Lives.
