Bryan Ward-Perkins is a lecturer in modern history at the University of Oxford, and fellow and tutor in history at Trinity College. He has published widely on the subject and is a coeditor of The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume XIV.
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Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians into Roman culture, an essentially positive transformati... SEE MORE