Resumen de The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders
George E. Demacopoulos (res.)
In other words, none of these successor states enjoyed the same degree of technological advantage (militarily, economically, and agriculturally) over their neighbors that the original Romans possessed. [...]each medieval reincarnation of Rome lacked the internal cohesion to absorb eventual dynastic challenges when its most dynamic leaders passed. [...]the rise of Islam forever altered the political dynamics of the Mediterranean and offered a direct counter to any claim of unchallenged political dominance in the original geographic space of the Empire. Given the scope of the project (and the book's length), it is perhaps surprising that Heather never really engages what one might call the discourse of Romanitas-in other words the artistic, literary, and cultural glue-by which the Ostrogoths, Byzantines, or Carolingians connected their civilizations to the Roman model and, in doing so, laid claim to the restoration of empire.
