Book description
On August 9, ad 378, outside Adrianople in the Roman province of Thrace, the Roman Empire began to fall. Two years earlier, an unexpected flood of refugees from the tribe known as the Goths had arrived at the Empire's eastern border, seeking admittance. In the David-and-Goliath struggle that ensued, the…
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Rome fell to the barbarians. Did it? I have always enjoyed examining this and other suggested reasons for the empire’s fall, and have never quite been able to pinpoint any one cause.
In this book, the aptly named Barbero dissects the reality of what we mean by ‘barbarian’, and paints a rich picture of time and geography to chart out the emergence, movement, and net effect on imperial Rome of tribes like the Visigoths, the Vandals, the Franks, the Alans, the Huns, and many, many more.
I found that the investigation raised more questions than answers, and that only made…
From Gordon's list on the fall of the Roman Empire.
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