Imperial Tragedy [electronic resource] : From Constantine's Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy AD 363-568
Michael Kulikowski2019
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For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its
influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military
force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and
Goths. Then came the definitive split, the Vandal sack of Rome, and the
crumbling of the West from Empire into kingdoms first nominally under Imperial
rule and then, one by one, beyond it.
Imperial Tragedy tells the story of Rome's gradual collapse. Full of palace
intrigue, religious conflicts and military history, as well as details of the
shifts in social, religious and political structures, Imperial Tragedy contests
the idea that Rome fell due to external invasions. Instead, it focuses on how
the choices and conditions of those living within the empire led to its fall.
For it was not a single catastrophic moment that broke the Empire but a creeping
process; by the time people understood that Rome had fallen, the west of the
Empire had long ...
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Author:
Michael Kulikowski, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Profile Books, 2019
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1 online resource (1 text file) (9169.0 Kbytes,)
Audience:
General/trade
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781782832461
Language:
English
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BRN:
434750
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