The riddle of west roman bankruptcy Aiming at a definite presentation of the
really conclusive scopes the author enlarges and revises here his earlier
radical new examinations of the controversial issues of Late Roman military
organization and agrarian taxation: the two fields of West Roman decay. He
enriches the topics by expan?ding the scope through his sourcemicroanalytic
method that results in additional new insights in both themes. Their spectrum is
extended also by involvement of modern experiences. The work not only
contributes to looking at the epochal process of historical change to the Middle
Ages far more adequately, but also opens new perspectives to assessing the
present age.