Full name: The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders

Author: Peter Heather Year: 2013 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780199368518 0199368511

In 476 AD the last of Rome's emperors was deposed by a barbarian general, the son of one of Attila the Hun's henchmen, and the imperial vestments were despatched to Constantinople. The curtain fell on the Roman Empire in Western Europe, its territories divided between successor kingdoms constructed around barbarian military manpower. But if the Roman Empire was dead, the dream of restoring it refused to die. In many parts of the old Empire, real Romans still lived, holding on to their lands, the values of their civilisation, its institutions; the barbarians were ready to reignite the imperial flame and to enjoy the benefits of Roman civilization, the three greatest contenders being Theoderic, Justinian and Charlemagne. But, ultimately, they would fail and it was not until the reinvention of the papacy in the eleventh century that Europe's barbarians found the means to generate a new Roman Empire, an empire which has lasted a thousand years. Similar books: Empires and Barbarians by Peter Heather The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham The Barbarian West by J. M. Wallace-Hadrill The Last Duel by Eric Jager Mohammed and Charlemagne by Henri Pirenne The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester The Civilization of the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor The Knight in History by Frances Gies Mysteries of the Middle Ages by Thomas Cahill Life in a Medieval City by Joseph Gies Medieval Cities by Henri Pirenne Life in a Medieval Castle by Joseph Gies The Making of the Middle Ages by R. W. Southern The Ruin of the Roman Empire by James J. O'Donnell Medieval Civilization by Jacques Le Goff Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer