12-24-2005, 10:32 PM
[amazon]'The Fall of the Roman Empire : A New History of Rome & the Barbarians' by Peter Heather[/amazon].
I'm about a third of the way through this book and it's one of the very best I've ever bought. Using literary and the latest archeological evidence unearthed, Heather debunks many of the popular notions about the Late Empire traditionally held by scholars since Gibbon's day. He convincingly shows that the Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries was not on the brink of any "moral", "social" , or economic, collapse.
A very insightful read
. And a great buy for anyone who's interested in the Late Empire and/or the fall of Rome.
Peter Heather is often seen on the History Channel. He's currently teaching at Worchester College, University of Oxford.
I'm about a third of the way through this book and it's one of the very best I've ever bought. Using literary and the latest archeological evidence unearthed, Heather debunks many of the popular notions about the Late Empire traditionally held by scholars since Gibbon's day. He convincingly shows that the Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries was not on the brink of any "moral", "social" , or economic, collapse.
A very insightful read
. And a great buy for anyone who's interested in the Late Empire and/or the fall of Rome. Peter Heather is often seen on the History Channel. He's currently teaching at Worchester College, University of Oxford.
Jaime
