West of Europe. Western Europe from barbarism to reformation

Virgil called Hesperia the Western provinces of the ancient Roman Empire, which, due to the mismatch of the vectors of civilizational development, separated from the East and fell as a result of the social crisis and the invasion of the “barbarians”. From this moment it is customary to count the era of the European Middle Ages. The kings and princes united by Catholic worldview sought to recreate a new empire under the auspices of Rome, perceived state borders as convention, whether Europe, Islamic
World or Orthodox countries. The second after Alexander the Macedonian paradigm of the global community of peoples with the capital on the Tiber was not destined to come true: the Europeans were not able to pass the period of national statehood, the beginning of which was laid by the Renaissance and the Reformation. The sociocultural phenomena considered in such an angle allow you to look at the past and future of world civilization in a new way