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Historical person
born 1984
Gratian was Roman emperor in the West from the fourth century and a ruler during the increasingly Christianised late empire. His reign included military pressure on the frontiers, religious policy against pagan institutions and eventual overthrow by Magnus Maximus.
In Adam Lofthouse’s Tribune and the Sword, Flavius Maximus has been declared emperor in Britain and crossed into Gaul, where the western emperor Gratian is dead. In John Broughton’s The Great Conspiracy, Valdor joins Magnus Maximus, first in campaigns within Britain and then in the usurper’s war against Emperor Gratian.
Series
Shadow of Rome is set in the late Roman Empire and follows soldiers, frontier commanders and barbarian recruits through Britain, Gaul, Constantinople and the imperial civil wars of the late fourth century. The series begins with the Great Conspiracy in Roman Britain and moves towards the struggles of…
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The Saxon Shore Trilogy traces the weakening of Roman authority in Britain from the breakaway empire of Carausius to the political world remembered in Arthurian legend. Successive generations of Valdor’s family serve as soldiers and commanders while imperial rivalry, frontier warfare and the withdrawal of Roman forces transform…
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Non Fiction
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