What attracts you to Late Rome?

[Theodosius the Great]

What attracted me to the Late Empire was the question of why something so big could collapse so quickly. AD 400, everything 'normal': 476, everything 'gone'.

Ah, the old text book explanation. In reality, of course, two thirds of the empire's population didn't take notice since life continued as before for the next 150 years in the east.

I'm glad we have books like yours, Ian, to correct such thinking

~Theo