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At various points during the fifth century the western empire was gradually dismembered, and reconfigured as a shifting mosaic of “barbarian” kingdoms. How and why did this happen? In helping us to tackle this question we have two comparators: the Principate and the Byzantine Empire. Though under severe pressure, both internal and external, the Principate never succumbed. Secondly, though the western empire dissolved, the East survived for a thousand years, until 1453.