Loss of central political control in the Western Roman Empire in late antiquity

Through the eye of a needle : wealth, the fall of Rome, and the making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD / Peter Brown.

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Rome - History - Empire, 284-476

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Through the eye of a needle : wealth, the fall of Rome, and the making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD / Peter Brown.