Paul Cooper
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But really, I think de facto, the complete loss of Britain is the revolt of Constantinus.
who is a common soldier who seems to rise to governor through some kind of military coup.
He's risen from the ranks of the soldiers in Britain.
He has no experience as a governor or statesman.
He seems to have been elevated purely because his name reminded people of the great Emperor Constantine that ruled less than a century earlier.
People thought, that's a lucky name, we'll go for this guy.
Yeah, certainly.
He rebels in 407 AD and makes much the same pattern as Maximus and Albinus.
He marches on Rome.
He actually manages to force Honorius into sharing the throne with him for a while.
So he does actually rule as co-emperor, this common soldier.
But soon, an alliance of challengers, disgusted at this guy forcing his way into imperial power, eventually chase him out of the capital.
Most of the soldiers he brings with him will never return to Britain.
Essentially, I think 407 is the time when Rome really has no administrative power over Britain anymore.
And after this point, the entire Romanized economy that we talked about really begins its terminal decline.
Well, undoubtedly there were people who might have celebrated the departure of Rome, but the entire Romanised economy that we talked about earlier now began its terminal decline.
Romanised cities slowly fell into disrepair, their populations slowly left.
Great monuments like Hadrian's Wall were also abandoned, left to overgrow.
People began to rob them of stone in order to build houses, build walls, things like that.
Roman bath houses, which require quite a lot of maintenance by skilled workers, and also the hypercoast systems that heated Roman houses from under the floor, both fell into disrepair.
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