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the sources sometimes fighting and resisting barbarian armies, sometimes
establishing treaties, often sending and receiving envoys. The most com-
prehensive contemporary overview of the function of embassies in the
politics of the empire and the western kingdoms comes not from a major
political centre such as Rome or Ravenna, but from a very provincial
origin, written by a lamenting bishop unhappily conscious of living on
the very edge of Mediterranean civilisation.
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