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THE FALL OF ROME - BRYAN WARD-PERKINS KARTONIER...

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 did it? The dominant view of this period today is that the 'fall of Rome' was a
largely peaceful transition to Germanic rule  and the start of a positive cultural
transformation. Bryan Ward-Perkins encourages every reader to think again by reclaiming the
drama and violence of Rome's fall  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  and why the story in still so significant
today.

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