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Hello, I am L.Sempronius Turpio. audaces fortuna iuvat et aut viam inveniam aut faciam.
I am very interested, and believe in the concept the westren roman empire didnt fall in 476 ad as the Ostrogoths who succeeded considered themselves as upholders of the direct line of Roman traditions. Many scholars maintain that rather than a "fall", the changes can more accurately be described as a complex transformation.
Henri Pirenne continued this idea in "Pirenne Thesis", published in the 1920s, which remains influential to this day. This theory stipulates the rise of the Frankish realm in Europe as a continuation of the Roman Empire, and thus legitimizes the crowning of Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor as a continuation of the Imperial Roman state. Pirenne's view on the continuity of the Roman Empire before and after the Germanic invasion was supported by recent historians such as François Masai, Karl-Ferdinand Werner and Peter Brown.
The French historian Lucien Musset, studying the Barbarian invasions, argues the civilization of Medieval Europe emerged from a synthesis between the Roman world and the Germanic civilizations penetrating the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire did not fall, did not decline, it just transformed but so did the Germanic populations which invaded it. To support this conclusion, beside the narrative of the events, he offers linguistic overviews of toponymy and anthroponymy, he aslo has analyzed archaeological records.
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