The Fall of Rome, p 146, fn 7
Faulkner, The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain
Wickham, Framing the Early Middle Ages
Post Roman Britain was not a brief egalitarian democracy, where the mass of British people could enjoy a short golden age, an end of exploitation and oppression.
Ridiculous accounts such as these could be multiplied a hundred times.
He lands on Wickham again like a ton of bricks, the kind that Wickham claimed post Roman elites, ostensibly just as well off as Roman aristocrats, chose not to have, in favor of fine Dark Age jewellry and clothing instead!....p 150
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