by William Rosen · Ediciones Paidós · tapa dura · ISBN 9788449321795
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«El fin del imperio romano» is the historical essay by William Rosen, published by Ediciones Paidós in hardback (416 pages, in Spanish).
The essay narrates how the plague killed twenty-five million people and how the Roman Empire, ruled by Justinian, its last great emperor, collapsed, giving way to medieval Europe. Rosen integrates microbiology, architecture, military history, theology, epidemiology, and the silk trade, culminating in Constantinople in 542.
This title opens the Orígenes collection. The Spanish text is a translation by Marita Oses; the original 2007 edition was titled «Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe».
For readers interested in the history of the Roman Empire, Byzantium, and epidemics as agents of historical transformation.
