Alban and st Albans Roman and Medieval Architecture, Art and Archaeology

Derived from a conference held in the summer of 1999 and it reviews religious activity at St. Albans from the Iron AGe until the end of the Middle Ages. For most of the Roman period Verulamium was a major pagan sanctuary, but in Christian times the focus of cult shifted to the site of the later church where it was associated with a Romano-British martyr. New evidence considered here ranges from the Biddles' epoch-making excavation of the Roman cemetery on the abbey site to a sensational new reconstruction of the early 5th century Passion of Alban by Richard SharpeHenig, Martin is the author of 'Alban and st Albans Roman and Medieval Architecture, Art and Archaeology' with ISBN 9781902653402 and ISBN 1902653408.