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The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD book cover

1st Edition

The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD

By Mark Merrony Copyright 2017
244 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD argues that the fall of the western Roman Empire was rooted in a significant drop in war booty, agricultural productivity, and mineral resources. Merrony proposes that a dependency on the three economic components was established with the Principate, when a precedent was set for an unsustainable threshold on military spending. Drawing on literary... Read more

Preface

List of maps and illustrations

Notes on the sources

Abbreviations

Introduction

I The Purple Cloak of Deceit

II The Bloody Peace

III Crisis! What Crisis ?

IV The Rise and Fall of the New Golden Era

V The Plight of Rome

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Mark Merrony is a Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (both in the UK). He specializes in Roman archaeology and history, and has undertaken fieldwork in Britain, France, and the Levant. Socio-economic aspects of Late Roman Mosaic Pavements in Phoenicia and Northern Palestine was published in 2013, and he has authored several peer-reviewed papers on the subject.

"Merrony constructs a solid thesis to explain the decline and fall of the Western Empire."

- Murray Eiland, Minerva magazine 2018

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