This monograph poses a number of important questions, in part because it treats a highly complex period, in part because of its ambitious targets. The main aim of the book, explicated in the first pages of the introduction, is to answer one of the key questions of Late Antiquity: how did Romans manage the transition from a state centered on the city of Rome to a Roman Empire absent Rome?

Marion Kruse. The Politics of Roman Memory: From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Age of Justinian. Empire and after. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

From Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR). Review by Donato Sitaro, University of Naples