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2: The Barbarian World

The Fall of Rome Podcast

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The Fall of Rome

Patrick Weimann: In general, it's impossible to escape the Roman perspective on the barbarians. He says Romans had their own conventions and prejudicial ideas that helped dictate how they thought about them. But we're going to try something a little different here; we'll examine what life was like beyond the frontier. The Goths didn't show up across the Danube as a blank, barbarous slate.

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