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Moral Bankruptcy is clear by the rule of Honorius. When he was informed Rome was taken (by Alaric the Goth 410) He thought the courier met his pet hen. Ultimately it was Rome's reliance on "Barbarian" Tribes for defence. With Romans buying their way out of the army, it's fall was a betrayal or two away...This is what happens when stories of Roman cruelty dating from the days of Augustus (Octavian), Tiberius and Germanicus... are suckled for 400 years. Roman governance collapsed in 476, but it's institutions survived via the church...
Have any of you read How the Irish Saved Civilization? Thomas Cahill does a fairly good job of just how Europe was reconnected to it's literary past. Kenneth Clark's Civilization also provides some interesting information Classical to Medieval as opposed to classical and Medieval... More of a continuous process as opposed to an immediate disconnect. For instance, Cahill cites that it took books up to 50 years to make its way from one end of the Roman empire to the other...By that same token, information was almost as slow in travelling. Does a city(tree) fall if you don't hear about it (or directly hear/see it?)?
