Vozrozhdenie Rimskoi imperii - Khizer P.

In 476, the commander of the Roman army Odoacre captured and executed the emperor's father and uncle - then the child - Romulus Augustula and sent the imperial regalia to Constantinople. It was a fatal blow to the Western Roman Empire. Peter Heather, professor of history of the Middle Ages, tells about three contenders for the throne who tried to revive the Roman heritage in Western Europe - Theodorich, Justinian and Charles the Great. The author shows that the old Roman Empire, created by conquests, could not be preserved in the new Europe at the beginning of the Middle Ages. It was only when clergymen from the barbaric north updated the institution of the papacy, it became possible to restore the imperial power. This new Roman Empire, created by barbarians, is more than a thousand years old.