I just started O'Donnell's "Ruin of the Roman empire" on more or less the same subject.
Here's a line that made me think of Twilight:2000. "When the great civilians were dispossessed or disappeared, leaving only military men wealthy enough to own land, as began to happen in Italy after the awful wars of the mid-sixth century, we can see the beginnings of feudalism." (p.33)
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My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.
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