Life of St Severinus

The first volume in the Rott Classics series is Eugippius’ Life of St Severinus.

The Life of Saint Severinus by the monk Eugippius is fascinating and important because it provides an eyewitness account of the end of the Roman empire in Noricum Ripense, which roughly equates to modern Austria. The overwhelming impression is one of poverty, starvation and increasing isolation. There is an English translation here.

Adrian Murdoch, the editor of the text, has blogged extensively about Eugippius in the past. On the decline and fall of the Roman empire here and on the connection between Eugippius and the family of Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman emperor, here.

Welcome to Rott Publishing

Welcome to Rott Publishing.

The world of publishing has changed beyond all measure in the last few years. Thanks to the Internet everyone can be a publisher. But are they always qualified? The idea of Rott Publishing is to provide basic and reliable texts that have been selected, edited and proofed and with care. The editors at Rott collectively have 50 years’ experience in publishing between them.

The first imprint we have launched is Rott Classics. Although many classical texts are available for free on the Internet, they often come from unreliable sources and have been inexpertly scanned. All of our texts will be made available on the Kindle and at low prices. The aim is to publish one text a month starting with Eugippius’ Life of St Severinus.

Should you have any suggestions, don’t hesitate to email us at editors AT rottpublishing.com.