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For long process by which Roman Britannia morphed into the AngloSaxon kingdoms was gradual, not sudden, an adaptation, not an annihilation. For a long time the Saxons were a tiny minority, numbered in hundreds rather than thousands, and they lived in the midst of an overwhelmingly RomanoBritish population. As different as these cultures were, they were still neighbours. The vast majority still tried and succeeded in living some sort of Roman life. Here at Wroxeter, in Shropshire, the Roman Veraconium, there' s wonderful evidence of this makedo, hybrid, improvised world poised between Roman ruins and AngloSaxon beginnings. When the bath house stopped functioning, the citizens here just took the tiles and used them for paving. And when the roof of the great basilica threatened to fall in, the citizens simply went and demolished the whole building themselves. Inside the shell they then put up a new timber structure, spacious and elegant enough to give them the sense they were still living some sort of Roman lifestyle, although in an increasingly phantom Britannia. |
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luó mǎ bù liè diān ní yà bèi àng gé lǔ sā kè xùn wáng guó qǔ dài, lì jīng le jīng tūn cán shí de màn cháng guò chéng ér jué fēi yī shùn, shì píng wěn de yǎn biàn, ér fēi zhòu biàn. hěn zhǎng shí jiān, sā kè xùn zú zhǐ shì yī zhī shǎo shù mín zú, rén kǒu shù bǎi, bù jí shàng qiān. zài luó mǎ bù liè diān yā dǎo xìng de rén kǒu jiā fèng qiú cún. jí shǐ wén huà jiǒng yì, què réng néng hé píng gòng chǔ. páng dà de mín zú réng jiù wéi chí zhe yuán yǒu de luó mǎ shì shēng huó, zài xī luó pǔ jùn de wò kè sī tè, luó mǎ shí qī de wēi ěr kè ní yà, bǎo liú le liǎng zhǒng wén míng jiāo róng de wán měi zhèng jù, tài rán yú luó mǎ fèi xū yǔ àng gé lǔ sā kè xùn zhāo yáng zhī jiān. dāng dà yù chí bù zài yùn zuò, shì mín wā lái yù chí de cí zhuān yòng lái pū lù. dāng tā men de wū dǐng yǔ dà jiào táng yáo yáo yù zhuì, shì mín men biàn shùn shì chāi diào, bìng dòng gōng xīn jiàn. tā men yùn yòng mù zhì jié gòu zuò wéi gǔ jià, kuān chǎng ér kǎo jiū, ràng tā men rèn wéi zì jǐ réng bǎo chí zhe luó mǎ shēng huó fāng shì . |