#14: The Fall of Rome - with Prof Caroline Goodson Schnack von gestern

When in the year 476 the last emperor of the Western Rome was deposed, it marked the end of a realm that had once spanned from Portugal to Saudi-Arabia and from Scotland to Egypt. For much of Europe, it marked the end of a great civilisation and a plunge into the dark ages - or did it?

What was it really like to be alive in the late 5th century? Would people would have felt like the end of the world was coming to an end or was it business as usual? Professorof Early Medieval History and Fellow of King’s College at the University of Cambridge Caroline Goodson takes us sight-seeing in a late-antique cityscape …

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Host & Production: Fabian Alexander Eiden
Guest: Prof. Caroline Goodson
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