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“This is the book that made me what I am in a ridiculous number of ways…It drops a modern archaeologist back to Italy in the sixth century, when it’s ruled by the Ostrogoths, and when the Byzantine Empire under the Emperor Justinian I is trying to reconquer as much of the lost west as he possibly can. The archaeologist, Martin Padway, decides that the Ostrogoths would make better rulers for Italy than the Byzantines would, and does his best to help them and to pass on modern knowledge as he’s doing it.” Read more...
