Years and years ago I took a course on early medieval history that showed, without much doubt, how Rome never really "fell" and the Roman imperial order was simply translated into a wider European order. But, you know, nobody fXing cares.
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I don't think the analogy to the end of colonialism holds up. Decolonization did not cause demographic decline. The fall of Rome in the west did - in many cases so severe that Roman population levels were not reached again until the early modern period.
Describing that as a 'fall' requires no judgment on Rome's successors in Europe or anywhere. It simply requires observing a collapse sufficiently severe that it has a body count visible even through the deep paucity of evidence.
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I'm not so sure. The end of British colonialism came with world wars of titanic scale and significant loss of life. More importantly, "fall" as a term became part of a mythology and ideology that grows into the Early Modern period and influences the thinking profoundly.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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The term "fall" has enormous symbolic weight, and it is inflected with Christian sensibilities as well.
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It’s very much not my specialty, but it seems to me that from Milton onwards a “fall” is a profound moral event that coincides with a dramatic rise in temporal power? Satan, after all, has dominion in this world. This isn’t how Gibbon was using the word “fall” for sure.
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