428 AD: An Ordinary Year At The End Of The Roman Empire, by Guisto Traina
This book was a very enjoyable one to read, and followed the pattern of a few books that view a particular time rather than a particular person as the context in which to organize a work of history [1]. This is an approach I enjoyed here, and definitely one that I will have to explore more in the future, as it allows a writer to pursue various threads of material at the same time that share a context even if they are usually viewed together. As a way of joining together material that is largely unknown and often viewed in isolation, this approach to historical context is a worthy one in that it provides the opportunity for insight by seeing the same facts in a different way. Although I am not familiar with any of…
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