The Description of Britain
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The Description of Britain
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The Description of Britain, also known by its Latin name De Situ Britanniae, was a literary forgery perpetrated by Charles Bertram on the historians of England. It purported to be a 15th-century manuscript by the English monk Richard of Westminster, including information from a lost contemporary account of Britain by a Roman general (dux), new details of the Roman roads in Britain in the style of the Antonine Itinerary, and "an antient map" as detailed as the works of Ptolemy. Bertram disclosed
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Literary forgery by Charles Bertram
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Description_of_Britain
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2024-04-08T12:48:14Z
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