Constantine reunited the
western Roman Empire and converted to Christianity, ending its persecution in the Empire.
"Those were the dynamic times preceding the final collapse of the
Western Roman Empire in the late fifth century," said historian Aleksandar Jovanovic.
Lately led by the emperor Attila, the self-styled "Scourge of God," the Huns were no strangers to the newly Christianized realms of the eastern and
western Roman empire. Their arrival in the vicinity of the Caspian Sea from the fastnesses of Central Asia nearly a century earlier had set in motion a chain of events that devastated the aging Roman Empire.
His new, very affordable book is a point-by-point analysis 0f a small group of incontestable facts about the end of the
western Roman empire that show that the rosy view of "transformation" is fundamentally mistaken: many aspects of what we would call the "civilization" of the West did indeed face a serious and rapid decline.
Segedunum is also the only fort in the
western Roman Empire where the complete ground plan of a fort can be viewed from a 35-metre tower and it is the most excavated fort within the World Heritage Site of Hadrian's Wall.
The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the
Western Roman Empire. By Michele Renee Salzman.
Carnuntum is geographically roughly in the middle of the eastern Roman Empire and the
western Roman Empire and therefore it was a very important location.
The pontificate of Leo the Great (440-461) covered the end of the
Western Roman Empire. It was under his leadership that the governing of the city began to be transferred from imperial authority to Christian.
Of special interest are the chapters on 'King Arthur's Britain and the end of the
western Roman empire'; 'Charlemagne's elephant'; and 'Beyond feudalism: monasteries and their management in the eight and ninth centuries'.
After Hadrianople, predatory barbarian tribes were quick to pounce on the enfeebled Roman world, and by the late fifth century, the last remnant of the
Western Roman Empire was conquered by the Goths and other tribes.
It was founded in 1990 and seeks to research and re-enact the conflicts that took place during the fall of the
Western Roman Empire; originally a fifth-century `Arthurian' Group, they found the historical backdrop to the original story of Arthur more fascinating than the idea of the vague character lost in legend.
Remarkably, post-Roman Wroxeter outlasted the
Western Roman Empire by some 150 years.