Expert: Maria - 7/19/2004

Question
I'm doing a paper on the fall of Rome and want to explore Rome's population and demographic changes which might have contributed to it as well as the history of the Catholic Church and what influence the Pope had.  I'm trying to find a different approach, maybe downplaying its importance.
Any ideas would be welcome.  I'm reading Bury, Gibbon, and Ferrill.  What other authors should I include?
Thank yoin advance.


Catherine

Answer
Hello Catherine,

Here's a list of other authors you could read, besides E.Gibbon, J. B.Bury and A.Ferrill.

Hope it can be helpful to you.

Have a nice day.
Maria
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NB.
As for the history of the Catholic church and Pope's influence, this is NOT my field of expertise(see my profile).
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-Jones, A. H. M. The Decline of the Classical World
Longman, 1966.

-Grant, Michael The Fall of the Roman Empire New
Collier, 1990.

-Lafferty, R. A. The Fall of Rome Garden City,
Doubleday, 1971

-Vogt, Joseph Janet Sondheimer, The Decline of Rome
New American Library, 1965.

-Decline and Fall of the Roman City
by J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz

-The Later Roman Empire: Ad 284-430
by Averil Cameron

-The Christians as the Romans Saw Them
by Robert Louis Wilken

-Christianity and the Roman Empire: Background Texts
by Ralph Martin Novak

-The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 13, The Late Empire, AD 337-425 (The Cambridge Ancient History)
by Averil Cameron (Editor), Peter Garnsey (Editor)

-The World of Late Antiquity Ad 150-750: Ad 150-750 (Library of World Civilization)