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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 16538442, member: 128351"]Fantastic, fabulous, vorzüglich !!! and extremely rare. Much rarer than gold solidi or tremisses, but this is normal for the period. </p><p><br /></p><p>I know that the deposition of Romulus Augustus by Odoacer in 476 is traditionally considered the last day of Antiquity and the first day of the Middle Ages - why not? But it's significant for modern Western Europe only. East of Italy it is a different periodisation, Antiquity ends with the coming of Islam (the Hijrah of Muhammad in 622, or the first Arabo-Muslim invasion of Syria in 634).</p><p><br /></p><p>Can the deposition of Romulus Augustus be called "end of the Roman Empire"? The emperor Zeno would have asked "But what kind of emperor am I ?". In Odoacer's mind the Roman Empire, divided by Arcadius and Honorius, was reunified under Zeno's formal authority. The Roman Empire lasted until 1453. Western historians have called it "Byzantine" since the 17th c. but in the Middle Ages everybody in Orient called it Roman. In Greek the emperor was called "Basileus Romaion" and in Persian the "Kaysar" of "Rum". In the 18th c. Edward Gibbon included the medieval period in his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 16538442, member: 128351"]Fantastic, fabulous, vorzüglich !!! and extremely rare. Much rarer than gold solidi or tremisses, but this is normal for the period. I know that the deposition of Romulus Augustus by Odoacer in 476 is traditionally considered the last day of Antiquity and the first day of the Middle Ages - why not? But it's significant for modern Western Europe only. East of Italy it is a different periodisation, Antiquity ends with the coming of Islam (the Hijrah of Muhammad in 622, or the first Arabo-Muslim invasion of Syria in 634). Can the deposition of Romulus Augustus be called "end of the Roman Empire"? The emperor Zeno would have asked "But what kind of emperor am I ?". In Odoacer's mind the Roman Empire, divided by Arcadius and Honorius, was reunified under Zeno's formal authority. The Roman Empire lasted until 1453. Western historians have called it "Byzantine" since the 17th c. but in the Middle Ages everybody in Orient called it Roman. In Greek the emperor was called "Basileus Romaion" and in Persian the "Kaysar" of "Rum". In the 18th c. Edward Gibbon included the medieval period in his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"...[/QUOTE]
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