The late-antiquity revolution in Roman history
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Gibbon structured Roman history as tragedy: greatness undone by fatal virtue. Brown structured it as
Gibbon structured Roman history as tragedy: greatness undone by fatal virtue. Brown structured it as bildungsroman: a culture shedding classical skin to discover new religious f...
Gibbon structured Roman history as tragedy: greatness undone by fatal virtue. Brown structured it as bildungsroman: a culture shedding classical skin to discover new religious forms. Rome did not fall; the genre did. Between 1960 and 1980 the factual archive changed little, while historians slowly relinquished the demand that a valid story end in catastrophe.