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“When Europe faced the great invasions”
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“When Europe faced great invasions” Le Figaro History
A graduate of history and doctor in medieval history, Bruno Dumézil is a professor at Paris-Sorbonne University.
The fall of the Roman Empire constitutes the mirror of all our terrors.
Generally perceived as a catastrophe, the end of the ancient world is attributed to changing causes.
Since the 18th century, hypotheses have multiplied: Germanic invasions, degradation of civic morality, softening role of Christianity, economic stagnation due to a bureaucratic State, and more recently epidemic shock or climatic transformation, each generation of Westerners seems to project its own concerns about what can cause the decline of a great civilization.
Among some specialists, an opposite trend consists…
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