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Bryan Ward-Perkins encourages the reader to think again on the fall of Rome by reclaiming the drama and violence, and reinstating the very real horrors of barbarian occupation and the disintegration of the Roman world. He examines how and why successive generations have understood this period differently.Why did Rome fall? Vicious barbarian invasions during the fifth century resulted in the cataclysmic end of the world's most powerful civilization, and a 'dark age' for its conquered peoples. Or ...Vis mer

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