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The Fall of Rome - And the End of Civilization (Paperback, New ed)
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The Fall of Rome - And the End of Civilization (Paperback, New ed)
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Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into
darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was
there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of
barbarians into Roman culture, an essentially positive
transformation?
In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian Bryan Ward-Perkins argues
that the "peaceful" theory of Rome's "transformation" is badly in
error. Indeed, he sees the fall of Rome as a time of horror and
dislocation that destroyed a great civilization, throwing the
inhabitants of the West back to a standard of living typical of
prehistoric times. Attacking contemporary theories with relish and
making use of modern archaeological evidence, he looks at both the
wider explanations for the disintegration of the Roman world and
also the consequences for the lives of everyday Romans, who were
caught in a world of marauding barbarians, and economic collapse.
The book recaptures the drama and violence of the last days of the
Roman world, and reminds us of the very real terrors of barbarian
occupation. Equally important, Ward-Perkins contends that a key
problem with the new way of looking at the end of the ancient world
is that all difficulty and awkwardness is smoothed out into a
steady and positive transformation of society. Nothing ever goes
badly wrong in this vision of the past. The evidence shows
otherwise.
Up-to-date and brilliantly written, combining a lively narrative
with the latest research and thirty illustrations, this superb
volume reclaims the drama, the violence, and the tragedy of the
fall of Rome.
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