![]() ![]() There really was little change at one deep level - the life of the peasant producers who made up perhaps 90% of the population. ![]() These revisionist arguments have some real substance. No one denied that many things changed between 350 and 600 AD, but it became fashionable to see these changes as much more the result of long-term evolution than of a violent imperial collapse. At the same time, there still lived in the west many individuals, who continued to describe themselves as Romans, and many of the successor states, it was correctly pointed out, were still operating using recognisably Roman institutions and justifying themselves ideologically with reference to canonical Roman values.Ĭonsequently, by the late 1990s the word 'transformation' had come into vogue. ![]()
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