The fall of the roman Empire has always been, at least for the western world, the paradigm supreme of the death of any civilization. And yet, the real reasons for his disappearance remain a mystery – not because of a lack, but rather an inflation of explanations. Thus, the German Alexander Demandt, in his masterful study on the position of the end of Rome in the western thought, has identified no fewer than 227 reasons proposed by researchers in recent centuries in order to explain the unthinkable.
When we pass in review the various categories of explanation...
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