Will I love The Tragedy of Empire?

I was not previously familiar with Michael Kulikowski’s work, but I now intend to read more of it.

Kulikowski meticulously examines the slow, tortured, and almost imperceptible—to the people who experienced it— disintegration of the Roman Empire during its last two centuries.

In this seamlessly woven narrative, he dismantles the age-old notion, which refuses to die, of a decisive “fall” of the Empire, and he traces the continuities and discontinuities — in both the Empire’s western and eastern halves — between the Empire and the world that succeeded it.

The period of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages often… show more.