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The Church Fathers · 511
The Life of Severinus
Eugippius · c. 465–c. 535
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What it is
The life of a monk who organised the defence, provisioning, and eventual evacuation of the Roman towns along the Danube as the frontier collapsed.
Why it lasted
The best single source for what the fall of the Western empire actually looked like to the people living through it.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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