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When thinking about Rome, it is easy to see that something, and something very big indeed, was, but no longer is. Something that no longer is has clearly ended, so natural curiosity brings several rather obvious questions to mind. "When did it end?" and "Why did it end?" Asking and attempting to answer these questions has been an industry of writers and historians for a very long time.
Books
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1
Paperback. Includes first 2 original volumes.
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City of God
Paperback
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The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
Paperback. Argues against the theory of Rome's "peaceful transformation".
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Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World
Hardcover
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The Origins Of The Middle Ages: Pirenne's Challenge to Gibbon
Part of Norton's "Historical Controversies" series. Paperback.
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Mohammed and Charlemagne
Paperback
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One problem with these questions is the deceptive ease with which one can pose them. A much more difficult thing is to define what "Rome" means when we ask when or why "it" fell, or even to clearly state what "fall" means. "Rome" can mean the city itself, the governance of the city and the people in it, the larger cultural world the these people projected around them, the political structure that maintained a widespread system of taxation, communication and military defense, the large number of communities that came to function locally under that system and that were inspired or influenced by cultural influences flowing out from one or more centers, and many more possibilities. Terms such as "Rome" "the Republic" and "the Roman Empire" mask a degree of diversity and decentralization that is foreign to modern people. Furthermore, when something is and later is not, it begs the question to say that something "fell" until the idea of "change" has been fully explored. Learn more ...
Pages in category "Decline and Fall"
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