The Toldinstone Podcast

1 – Why the Fall of Rome Set Europe Back 1,000 Years

Aug 24, 2022

42:16

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Bryan Ward-Perkins

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Is the Fall of the Roman Empire So Catastrophic for the Roman Economy?

02:41

Is the Roman Economy Really Run by the State?

01:42

Reuse Bricks in the Roman Empire

04:37

Introduction

6min

Pots Are Not Easy to Move Because They're Heavy and They'll Be Friable

2min

The Roman Economy

2min

Is the Roman Economy Really Run by the State?

2min

The Roman Economy Is Not the Container of the Economy, Right?

4min

What Are Some Other Useful Proxies for Economic Health and Economic Activity?

4min

Reuse Bricks in the Roman Empire

5min

Urban Housing in the Seventh and Eighth Century

2min

Is There a Demographic Trough in These Centuries?

5min

10.

Stone Churches in a Recession?

2min

11.

Early Medieval British Archaeology

5min

12.

Is the Fall of the Roman Empire So Catastrophic for the Roman Economy?

3min

13.

Ain't the Ancient World but Professorward Perkins

2min

In this inaugural episode of the Toldinstone Podcast, Professor Bryan Ward-Perkins outlines the archaeological evidence for the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, and explains why the fall of Rome was so catastrophic.

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