Das Ende des Kaisertums im Westen des Römischen Reichs. - WES, M.A.,

KORTE INHOUD

'Every schoolboy knows that the Western Roman Empire came to an end with the deposition of Romulus Augustus by Odoacer in 476. Contemporaries of this epoch-making event were less sure about it. (...) Dr. Wes, in a book marked equally by widt of range and depth of penetration, re-examines the dossier of the case. (...) chronological arguments form the central core of Wes's book; as he points out himself, they depend in part on unproved hypothes. Around these problems of dating and attribution he has built up a detialed and well-argues picture of the changing political views of the various groups of the Roman aristocracy. (...) This is a fascinating and thought-provoking book. Not all Wes's propositions are equally convincing, But they all demand serious reconsideration. And they centre round a problem far more important than the relations of Marcellinus,Jordanes, Cassiodorus, and Symmachus - that of the beginning of the Middle Ages in Western Europe.' (ROBERT BROWNING in The Classical Review (New Series), 1968...
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