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There's a remarkably well written, very short book on this period in Roman History. 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire , originally first published in Italian, gives the reader a picture of developments from around the empire. The author uses sources that are novel, from Armenia and further east. You get a good picture not so much of an Empire on its knees, but of one that still can craft strategies for dealing with crises.

From Publishers Weekly

Historian Traina, a professor at the University of Rouen, offers a series of snapshots of Roman history in a decidedly average year when the challenge was primarily to keep the grand imperial machinery running smoothly even as the empire's future was precarious. Although Traina's approach is wooden, he introduces a cast of people

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Ordered. I also ordered a similar book which showed up on the Amazon page, 'AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Christian State' by Charles Freeman.

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Ordered. I also ordered a similar book which showed up on the Amazon page, 'AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Christian State' by Charles Freeman.

 

This is one of the best books about the Late Roman Empire. Here is my review from several months back:

 

http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9493

 

Enjoy. :thumbsup:

 

guy also known as gaius

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Ordered. I also ordered a similar book which showed up on the Amazon page, 'AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Christian State' by Charles Freeman.

 

This is one of the best books about the Late Roman Empire. Here is my review from several months back:

 

http://www.unrv.com/...?showtopic=9493

 

Enjoy. :thumbsup:

 

guy also known as gaius

 

Thanks for the reminder! I'm amazed at how well 428 AD reads, almost literary. And it's a translation from Giusto Trana's original in Italian.

Here's a wiki entry on him with a list of his other works, all in Italian.

http://en.wikipedia....i/Giusto_Traina

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