The Restoration of Rome
Subtitle: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780230700154
Description: In 476 the last of Rome's emperors was deposed by a barbarian general and the imperial vestments were sent to Constantinople. The curtain fell on the Western Roman Empire, its territories divided between kingdoms constructed around barbarian military manpower. But if Rome was dead, the dream of restoring it refused to die.
Notes: Source title: The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders