Adrian Goldsworthy

There's still a warlord in charge who's now calling himself a king, but he's where you go if you've got a problem, if you need protection, if you need help, this sort of thing. The laws are the same. There's not this sudden, oh, let's do everything, you know, the good old German way of Even to the point where, think about it in that basic level, you get the Romance languages developing.

There's still a warlord in charge who's now calling himself a king, but he's where you go if you've got a problem, if you need protection, if you need help, this sort of thing. The laws are the same. There's not this sudden, oh, let's do everything, you know, the good old German way of Even to the point where, think about it in that basic level, you get the Romance languages developing.

You're not changing culturally anything, not in a deliberate way. Most of it changes because the system that the empire was able to support of movement of people, of goods, of ideas over such long distances, that goes. That's not there. That's declined for a long time. The big difference is that

You're not changing culturally anything, not in a deliberate way. Most of it changes because the system that the empire was able to support of movement of people, of goods, of ideas over such long distances, that goes. That's not there. That's declined for a long time. The big difference is that

You're not changing culturally anything, not in a deliberate way. Most of it changes because the system that the empire was able to support of movement of people, of goods, of ideas over such long distances, that goes. That's not there. That's declined for a long time. The big difference is that

Particularly in the north, if you look at a site from height of the empire, the amount of small finds are massive. There's just lots of it. And most of it, a lot of it has been made hundreds, even thousands of miles away from where it's found. Afterwards, there's much less of everything.

Particularly in the north, if you look at a site from height of the empire, the amount of small finds are massive. There's just lots of it. And most of it, a lot of it has been made hundreds, even thousands of miles away from where it's found. Afterwards, there's much less of everything.

Particularly in the north, if you look at a site from height of the empire, the amount of small finds are massive. There's just lots of it. And most of it, a lot of it has been made hundreds, even thousands of miles away from where it's found. Afterwards, there's much less of everything.

There's much less stuff, and it's locally made, apart from the very occasional high-prestige object, which you would have had in the pre-Roman Iron Age as well, that's come a long way and is maybe part of diplomatic exchange as well. But that's all gone. There is a difference. The closer you are to the Mediterranean, the better things are, the less things change.

There's much less stuff, and it's locally made, apart from the very occasional high-prestige object, which you would have had in the pre-Roman Iron Age as well, that's come a long way and is maybe part of diplomatic exchange as well. But that's all gone. There is a difference. The closer you are to the Mediterranean, the better things are, the less things change.

There's much less stuff, and it's locally made, apart from the very occasional high-prestige object, which you would have had in the pre-Roman Iron Age as well, that's come a long way and is maybe part of diplomatic exchange as well. But that's all gone. There is a difference. The closer you are to the Mediterranean, the better things are, the less things change.

And for a lot of these communities, especially from the archaeological viewpoint, you can look at bits of southern Spain, Portugal, Italy, Very little difference, which again shows how unimportant the empire had become by this time. So I think there's a lot of difference in the change. And there's a lot of, because it's so gradual,

And for a lot of these communities, especially from the archaeological viewpoint, you can look at bits of southern Spain, Portugal, Italy, Very little difference, which again shows how unimportant the empire had become by this time. So I think there's a lot of difference in the change. And there's a lot of, because it's so gradual,

And for a lot of these communities, especially from the archaeological viewpoint, you can look at bits of southern Spain, Portugal, Italy, Very little difference, which again shows how unimportant the empire had become by this time. So I think there's a lot of difference in the change. And there's a lot of, because it's so gradual,

The big thing is there's no alternative waiting to step into the place of the Roman Empire that people want. And everybody's still desperate to be Roman and to live that nice, comfortable Roman lifestyle, including the Vandal Kings, the Visigothic Kings, the others. They are trying to run a little Roman Empire as their kingdom. And they'd like to be rich and they'd like to have the luxuries.

The big thing is there's no alternative waiting to step into the place of the Roman Empire that people want. And everybody's still desperate to be Roman and to live that nice, comfortable Roman lifestyle, including the Vandal Kings, the Visigothic Kings, the others. They are trying to run a little Roman Empire as their kingdom. And they'd like to be rich and they'd like to have the luxuries.

The big thing is there's no alternative waiting to step into the place of the Roman Empire that people want. And everybody's still desperate to be Roman and to live that nice, comfortable Roman lifestyle, including the Vandal Kings, the Visigothic Kings, the others. They are trying to run a little Roman Empire as their kingdom. And they'd like to be rich and they'd like to have the luxuries.

It's just that they can't do it. It doesn't work on that scale. And so much of the wider system has gone. So you cannot look at this from a long point of view and not see a decline and not see a change. At what point it became inevitable is difficult to say because we don't know what could have been done, what might have happened.

It's just that they can't do it. It doesn't work on that scale. And so much of the wider system has gone. So you cannot look at this from a long point of view and not see a decline and not see a change. At what point it became inevitable is difficult to say because we don't know what could have been done, what might have happened.

It's just that they can't do it. It doesn't work on that scale. And so much of the wider system has gone. So you cannot look at this from a long point of view and not see a decline and not see a change. At what point it became inevitable is difficult to say because we don't know what could have been done, what might have happened.