Am reading
- Ennen, Leonard: Geschichte der Stadt Köln : meist aus den Quellen des Kölner Stadt-Archivs ; 1, Köln 1863
oh my, has our view of history changed since he wrote this book. Especially our knowledge about the dissolution of the Roman Empire no longer ascribes it to moral decay that even the injection of youthful Germanic spirit and morally strict Christendom could not reverse.
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