The Restoration of Rome
04 July 2013
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
In 476 AD the last of Rome’s emperors was deposed by a barbarian general, the son of one of Attila the Hun’s henchmen, and the imperial vestments were despatched to Constantinople. The curtain fell on the Roman Empire in Western Europe, its territories divided between successor kingdoms constructed around barbarian military manpower. But if the Roman Empire was dead, the...
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04 July 2013
524 pages
9780230772304
Imprint: Picador