Romans and Barbarians : The Decline of the Western Empire

E a Thompson
University of Wisconsin Press
 9780299087043
0-299-08704-2

The Fall of the Roman Empirefrom the barbarian's perspectiveAvailable for the first time in paperback, this classic work by renowned historian E.A. Thompson examines the fall of the Roman Empire in the.

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West from the barbarian perspective and experience. Standard interpretations of the decline of the Roman Empire in the West view the barbarian invaders as destroyers. Thompson, however, argues that the relationship between the invaders and the invaded was far more complex than the common interpretation would suggest. This edition includes a new foreword by F.M. Clover and J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz.