ACOUP - Rome: Decline and Fall? Part I: Words

After a thousand years of sleep, I’m finally back with new narrations. I decided to start with Bret’s trilogy of posts discussing the concept of Rome “declining and falling,” examining how the actual historical record matches up with the pop-culture idea of Rome collapsing into a period of ignorance and decay called “The Dark Ages.” To start that discussion, Bret first overviews the general scholastic trends of thinking about this period of history, when the Roman empire transitioned into medieval Europe, and then he takes a detailed look at the development of culture, language, literature, and art over that period.

 

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Original post for this recording - https://acoup.blog/2022/01/14/collections-rome-decline-and-fall-part-i-words/

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0:00 - Words

3:52 - Two Knights, An Old Man, and a Nitwit

17:50 - A Short History of the (Long) Fifth Century

34:12 - Living Together

56:32 - Literature

1:10:52 - Credits