Re: Nova Scriptio [was: Novus; was; capitolisation]

Barbara Barrett scripsit:

> As in our world, before the christianisation of the Empire, Rome had mostly
> withdrawn from the west and left it to its own devices.
Rather more so than in our world, it seems.  The Popes at Rome *here*
saw themselves as the effective successors of the Western Emperors.
Perhaps there was no division of the Empire there?

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