Conventional history portrays the Dark Ages as an ominous period precipitated by the fall of Rome. Rudgley challenges this view, accusing the Romans of a vested interest in propagating their own version of history.
He examines the fall of Rome, the Anglo Saxon invasion of Britain and the rise of the Vikings and concludes that our own ancestors, long portrayed as Barbarians, were much more than that, with their art, society and cultural legacy shaping the destiny of Europe more so than the Roman Empire.
Updated: 10:05 Wednesday, November 13, 2002
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