Bryan Ward-Perkins: Podcast Interviews

Bryan Ward-Perkins

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Historian, Archaeologist, Author

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Bryan Ward-Perkins's Interviews

Razib Khan & Bryan Ward-Perkins • 02 Aug 2024 • EN

Bryan Ward-Perkins: The material consequences of the fall of Rome

On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to archeologist and historian Bryan Ward-Perkins about his 2005 book The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization. Ward-Perkins was born and grew up in Rome, a son of architectural historian and archaeologist, John Bryan Ward-Perkins. Educated at Oxford University,

Brad Harris & Bryan Ward-Perkins • 12 Dec 2018 • EN

The Fall of Rome, and the End of Civilization

Today, I’m speaking with Bryan Ward-Perkins, author of The Fall of Rome, and the End of Civilization. It has become fashionable to argue that Roman civilization never collapsed, but was merely transformed by Germanic culture. Although this counter-narrative can illuminate intellectual developments of Late Antiquity, i