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Europe and the Faith Chapter 3 - (Concluded)
In which the author examines the true character of the late Roman Empire’s military upheavals, focusing on Alaric not as a foreign barbarian conqueror but as a Roman officer caught in the internal struggles and changing loyalties of his time. This narrative reveals how the gradual transformation of Roman society and government was less a collapse under barbarian invasions and more a shift in power to local commanders of largely barbaric origin within the Roman military framework.
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