Annotations on the fall of Rome

These are annotations for the fourteenth chapter of the book Impossible Histories. I’m not saying you need to keep a copy of IH open next to you as you read, but it might make some things clearer?

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p. 289
•epigraph

Except for graveyards and bathhouses, the whole earth is a mosque.
§Al-Tabirzi, A Niche for Lamps (C14).

p. 290
•the empire’s leadership does not have the best reputation: Here’s Emerson: “The barbarians who broke up the Roman empire did not arrive a day to...