The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain

The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain
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ISBN-10 : 0752428950
ISBN-13 : 9780752428956
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Book Synopsis The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain by : Neil Faulkner

Download or read book The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain written by Neil Faulkner and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Rome abandon Britain in the early 5th century? According to Neil Faulkner, the centralized, military-bureaucratic state, governed by a class of super-rich landlords and apparatchiks, had siphoned wealth out of the province, with the result that the towns declined and the countryside was depressed. When the army withdrew to defend the imperial heartlands, the remaining Romano-British elite succumbed to a combination of warlord power, barbarian attack, and popular revolt.


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