Imperial Tales by Mike Aquilina

Book Reviews

Imperial Tales

The Last Pagan: Julian the Apostate and the Death of the Ancient World by Adrian Murdoch

Sutton, 2005
(260 pages, $29.95, hardcover)

The Last Roman: Romulus Augustulus and the Decline of the West by Adrian Murdoch

Sutton, 2006
(190 pages, $29.95, hardcover)

reviewed by Mike Aquilina

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Mike Aquilina is vice president of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology (www.salvationhistory.com) and a general editor of The Catholic Vision of Love catechetical series.

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