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INTRODUCTORY<br />

significant way different from the centuries that preceded. Only Ammianus<br />

Marcellinus had the insight to perceive that he was living <strong>and</strong> writing in an<br />

age of crisis, though he never attempts to define the nature of the crisis.<br />

Christian writers, with their essentially historical view of the world, were<br />

sometimes more sensitive to the signs of change than their pagan contemporaries.<br />

Augustine's City of God in its way marks the end of the ancient<br />

world in the west as clearly as do the great barbarian invasions.<br />

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