The Roman Empire Divided: 400-700

If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West: and if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honour. Edward Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Looks beyond Western Europe and Britain to North Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. Draws on a very wide range of material - literary, archaeological, linguistic, numismatic, legal an artistic. Written in an engaging and easy to read style and is generously illustrated throughout. The decline and fall of the Roman Empire has transfixed readers of history for centuries. This important new account looks at what happened after the power of the once mighty empire was swept away. Smaller states founded by Slavs, Arabs, Germanic peoples and others moved in to fill the void and laid the foundations for the later histories of western Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East and north Africa. John Moorhead looks at how these f...