How Barbarians Led to the Fall of Rome
Review of 'How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World', by Craughwell
Review of Thomas Craughwell's How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World.
Alaric - Study Guide for Alaric
Alaric (c. 370-410), a Gothic chieftain, Arian Christian, and eventually, pillager of Rome, led the Goths under him out of the Balkans and into the Roman Empire where he sought land for their settlement.
Peter Heather - The Fall of Roman Empire
Review of Peter Heather's The Fall of the Roman Empire - A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire
Review of "The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire," by Alessandro Barbero.
Procopius Describes Alaric's Sack of Rome
Procopius begins this section of Book III of the Vandalic Wars with the alliance of the Visigoths with Alaric. His description of the sack has interesting anecdotes, including one about the emperor's response to the sacking of Rome. By this time, the emperor was in no physical danger from the sacking since he made his home elsewhere.
Procopius on the Vandal Conquest of Libya
Procopius describes the treaty made between the Roman emperor Honorius and the Vandals in which the Vandals are tricked and are eventually pressed to retaliate. Valentinian III became emperor and because of the effeminate upbringing and his association with the typical round of miscreant sorcerers, was unfit for the job and lost Libya.
Decay
Why and how decay is a reason for the fall of Rome.
Attila the Hun
Attila the Hun participated in the Roman conflict with the Visigoths but was also in his own right a threat to Rome.
Attila the Hun
Attila was just one of a series of serious threats to the power of Rome, but the barbarian menace showed up some of the chinks in Rome's armor.