The Senate continued to meet in Rome just as it had for nearly a millennium. Latin remained the language of administration.

The barbarians are rising and there is unrest in the outer cities. The empire – as vast as it is – can still be toppled if the invading hordes are not dealt with. Pandemic: Fall of Rome is the latest ...

Thomas Cole, “Destruction” (1836), oil on canvas, at the New-York Historical Society, New York City, New York (image via Wikimedia) Why do we continue to be fascinated by the sacking of the city of ...

Lend us your ears: History has announced the cast and global premiere dates for its limited series about the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. The eight-part Barbarians Rising will invade North ...

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WHAT IT’S ABOUT The Roman Empire rose, then fell, while fighting “barbarians,” or disparate tribes from the north, south, east and west that prodded the boundaries of the expanding realm for ...

On The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather and The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins. After September 11 and the acrimonious war in Iraq, America was castigated as ...

Medievalist Barbero (The Battle: A New History of Waterloo) offers a revisionist history of the relatively obscure battle of Adrianople, arguing that the course of world history changed after the ...

The timeline of the failure of the Roman state is fairly well established and accepted, thanks to the Romans' love of writing. The circumstances contributing to its disintegration, however, have long ...