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I'm currently reading the Alexiad and wondering if any of you had a suggestion for other books around the idea of restoration, more so in a political/cultural way, someone stepping to stop the decay that is going on before your eyes.

>> No.22374731

>>22374728
>The west is falling thread number 47582949483&4

>> No.22374734

You could look into the renovatio imperii attempts by the Ottonian and Salian kings, they were legit

Of course also the Carolingian renaissance, and you'd probably enjoy Kantorowicz's famous book on Frederick II but it's not quite fighting decay

>> No.22374742

>>22374731
It's the only thing worth talking about

>> No.22374743

>>22374731
I'm an American but I was thinking more in terms of my family and local community.

>> No.22374751
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22374751

Augustus put a high priority on restoring what he saw as Rome's lost moral virtue. That's why he was so hard on his slut of a sister. He was trying to preserve what could be preserved even though he knew the republic had run its course and was exhausted.

>> No.22374752

>>22374743
What do you want to be better?

>> No.22374767

>>22374752
Issues currently at hand
>decline in moral value
>greed and ego at the forefront of everything
>the preference to appear successful and morally righteous in front of others instead of their true selves
>the general disregard for proper education
>a complete disregard for the poor and the suffering
These are a few that come to mind. Nothing new with society of course. I'm hoping that reading the works of these 'restorers' will somehow provide me wisdom to enact some sort of restoration myself.

>> No.22374801

>>22374767
You can never change the hearts of others. You can only work on yourself. It is the internal that matters much more than the external. A man content in himself is content in general

>> No.22374843

>>22374728
The Wars of Justinian, by Prokopios

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22375371

I chose to read The Anatomy of Melancholy after The Alexiad and they've been good complements so far with one another

>>22374728
>it's an anti-barbarian chapter