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The Restoration of Rome - Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders (Paperback)
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The Restoration of Rome - Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders (Paperback)
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In 476 AD, the last of Rome's emperors, known as "Augustulus," was
deposed by a barbarian general, the son of one of Attila the Hun's
henchmen. With the imperial vestments dispatched to Constantinople,
the curtain fell on the Roman empire in Western Europe, its
territories divided among successor kingdoms constructed around
barbarian military manpower. But, if the Roman Empire was dead,
Romans across much of the old empire still lived, holding on to
their lands, their values, and their institutions. The conquering
barbarians, responding to Rome's continuing psychological dominance
and the practical value of many of its institutions, were ready to
reignite the imperial flame and enjoy the benefits. As Peter
Heather shows in dazzling biographical portraits, each of the three
greatest immediate contenders for imperial power--Theoderic,
Justinian, and Charlemagne--operated with a different power base
but was astonishingly successful in his own way. Though each in
turn managed to put back together enough of the old Roman West to
stake a plausible claim to the Western imperial title, none of
their empires long outlived their founders' deaths. Not until the
reinvention of the papacy in the eleventh century would Europe's
barbarians find the means to establish a new kind of Roman Empire,
one that has lasted a thousand years. A sequel to the bestselling
Fall of the Roman Empire, The Restoration of Rome offers a
captivating narrative of the death of an era and the birth of the
Catholic Church.
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