The fall of Rome
by Bryan Ward-Perkins · first published 2006
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For an opposite perspective, Bryan Ward-Perkins' "The Fall Of Rome: And the End of Civilization" is a readable-by-the-layperson argument that the end of Roman authority in Western Europe resulted in significant falls in trade, health, literacy, cultural achievement,…
on “The 'Dark Ages' Weren't as Dark as We Thought” ↗There's an excellent book on the subject called The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, by Bryan Ward-Perkins. It includes a detailed overview of the archeological evidence, which shows a very clear and dramatic decline in the economy and living standards --…
on “Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics?” ↗…(a) an ass and (b) writing in what was still the Middle Ages -- but I think that modern historians try to minimize how much really was lost in late antiquity and the "Viking Age" after Charlemagne. The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization discusses the first of these periods; A History of Private Life has some interesting discussion of the second, and there was a memorable discussion of the Viking Age in the…
on “What Sid Meier’s Video Game Empire Got Right and Wrong About ‘Civilization’” ↗…of the ancient Roman world was forcibly dispersed from Constantinople, most of it found a safe harbor in Italian cities that would become the center of the Renaissance.[2] [1] Ward-Perkins, Bryan. The Fall of Rome And the End of Civilization [2] Brownworth, Lars. Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
on “Why did science make little real progress in Europe in the Middle Ages?” ↗I just read Bryan Ward-Perkins’s “The Fall of Rome” and it argues pretty persuasively that the era after the fall was materially worse off than during the Roman Empire. Specifically the quality and quantity of manufactured artifacts and dwellings in…
on “7k-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered” ↗