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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 since broken the Imperial yoke.Product Identifiers
PublisherProfile Books Ltd
ISBN-139781781256336
eBay Product ID (ePID)3049049640
Product Key Features
Number of Pages420 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameImperial Tragedy: from Constantine's Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy Ad 363-568
Publication Year2021
SubjectHistory
TypeTextbook
AuthorProfessor Michael Kulikowski
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight386 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorProfessor Michael Kulikowski
Series TitleThe Profile History of the Ancient World Series