New Book from Adrian Goldsworthy: How Rome Fell

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Because so you get the audience more interested in your book :wink:

there is a moral for the 21st century here

How come that the fall of the Roman Empire is always compared to a crisis in the historian's own age? From Gibbon through Pirenne to Goldworthy, there's always a moral for contemporaries. Since theories about the fall of Rome invariably turn out to be incorrect, I no longer believe that there can be a moral here, and I seriously start to think that scholars who say that there is a parallel, ought to go back to the schoolbanks. The whole subject is starting to bore me, although a book about end-of-Rome-books might be interesting.

(BTW, I like Caballo's posting that review.)