The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD - Mark Merrony - Google Books Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More » Sign in Books Try the new Google Books Check out the new look and enjoy easier access to your favorite features Try it now No thanks Try the new Google Books Try the new Google Books My library Help Advanced Book Search Buy eBook - $39.46 Get this book in print Routledge Amazon.com Barnes&Noble.com Books-A-Million IndieBound All sellers » The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD Mark Merrony Routledge, Jul 6, 2017 - History - 244 pages 0 Reviews The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD argues that the fall of the western Roman Empire was rooted in a significant drop in war booty, agricultural productivity, and mineral resources. Merrony proposes that a dependency on the three economic components was established with the Principate, when a precedent was set for an unsustainable threshold on military spending. Drawing on literary and archaeological data, this volume establishes a correspondence between booty (in the form of slaves and precious metals) from foreign campaigns and public building programmes, and how this equilibrium was upset after the Empire reached its full expansion and began to contract in the third century. It is contended that this trend was exacerbated by the systematic loss of agricultural productivity (principally grain, but also livestock), as successive barbarian tribes were settled and wrested control from the imperial authorities in the fifth century. Merrony explores how Rome was weakened and divided, unable to pay its army, feed its people, or support the imperial bureaucracy – and how this contributed to its administrative collapse.   Preview this book » What people are saying - Write a review We haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Selected pages Table of Contents Index References Contents Preface Abbreviations The purple cloak of deceit The bloody peace Crisis What crisis? The rise and fall of the new golden The plight of Rome Copyright Other editions - View all The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD Mark Merrony Limited preview - 2017 The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD Mark Merrony No preview available - 2017 The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century Ad Mark Merrony No preview available - 2019 Common terms and phrases agricultural product Alans Antonine Plague Archaeological data archaeological evidence attested Augustan period Augustus AVDC barbarian Basilica Battle biography booty Britain Britannia building inscriptions Caesar campaigns Caracalla cent Christian civic civitates coinage Commodus Constantine Constantinople construction Dacia Danube decline decurions defeat Diocletian Duncan-Jones early fifth century eastern economic emperor epigraphic Esmonde Cleary foederati Forum fourth century frontier Gaul gold Gothic Goths Hadrian Hadrian’s Wall Heather historian History Honorius Huns Iberian peninsula imperial Italy late Roman MacMullen Marcus Aurelius Metropolis civitas military minted Nero North Africa numismatic olive oil Pannonia Platner and Ashby provinces recorded region reign revenue revolt Rhine Roman army Roman empire Rome Rome’s rural Sarmatians Sasanian second century Septimius Severus sesterces settlement soldiers sources southern Gaul substantial Sueves suggested Temple territories Theodosius third century Trajan Translated troops urban Valens Valentinian Valentinian III Vandal Vespasian villas Visigoths Ward-Perkins western empire western Roman empire Xiongnu About the author (2017) Mark Merrony is a Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (both in the UK). He specializes in Roman archaeology and history, and has undertaken fieldwork in Britain, France, and the Levant. Socio-economic aspects of Late Roman Mosaic Pavements in Phoenicia and Northern Palestine was published in 2013, and he has authored several peer-reviewed papers on the subject. Bibliographic information Title The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD Routledge Studies in Ancient History Author Mark Merrony Edition illustrated Publisher Routledge, 2017 ISBN 1351702785, 9781351702782 Length 244 pages Subjects History  › Ancient  › General History / Ancient / General     Export Citation BiBTeX EndNote RefMan About Google Books - Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Information for Publishers - Report an issue - Help - Google Home