My voice sticks in my throat; and, as I dictate, sobs choke my utterance. The City which had taken the whole world was itself taken.” [1]
The churchman Jerome wrote those words when he heard of the sack of Rome by Alaric I and his Visigoths in A.D. 410. Truth be told, Alaric’s sack of Rome caused far less damage and death than you might imagine, but the emotional and psychological effects reverberated throughout the
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