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Barbarians, political breakdown, economic collapse, mass migration, pillaging and plunder. The fall of the Roman Empire has been studied for years, but genetics, climate science, forensic sc...
Patrick has a new history podcast, Past Lives ! It's all about the experiences of real, everyday people throughout the human past, people ju...
Welcome to "The Pursuit of Dadliness." This is a podcast for folks who want to enjoy their passions and their hobbies, whatever those might...
How did a changing climate and plague play into the fall of the Roman Empire? I'm joined by Kyle Harper, Professor of Classics at the Univer...
Justinian was the last great Roman emperor, but his reign was plagued by disasters beyond his control: volcanic eruptions, a changing climat...
Justinian is one of the defining figures of the Roman Empire. In many ways, he marks the boundary between Antiquity and the Middle Ages. In...
While the western half of the Roman Empire was collapsing, the east managed to weather the storm of the disastrous fifth century. In this ep...
When we talk about the fall of the Roman Empire, we're only talking about the western half - France, Spain, Italy, North Africa, and Britain...
How did Latin splinter into the Romance languages? In this episode, we explore how Latin transformed from a single, widely dispersed languag...
Cities were what made the Roman world Roman , but as the Empire fell apart, so did its cities. They shrank drastically or disappeared entire...
Cities were what made the Roman world, well, Roman. They were centers of culture and political life, and they were the bedrock that tied tog...
History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme, said Mark Twain. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the rise of the modern world: histo...
Could the Roman Empire have survived past the fifth century? To answer that question, we examine some other points when the Empire could hav...
Saint Augustine is one of the foundational figures of Christianity and one of the most influential thinkers of all time. He was also a compl...
As central government disappeared from what had been the Western Roman Empire, the barbarian kingdoms stepped into the void, creating new fo...
Roman Britain fell fast, and it fell hard. Into the ruins of this world stepped a wave of migrants from the North Sea coast of the Continent...
Why didn't Rome rise again? Everywhere else in the world, the appearance of one great empire was marked by their recurrent resurgence, but i...
As the Roman Empire disintegrated, northern Gaul turned first into a military province and then into a playground for warlords, some Roman a...
Under the leadership of their great king Theoderic, the Ostrogoths built a kingdom for themselves in Italy. But was this a kingdom, and Theo...
The ashes of the Roman Empire produced a host of new states built on the foundations it left behind. The first of these was the Visigothic K...
Taxes, soldiers, and loyalty: these were the foundations, the structures, of the Roman political system. This episode explores how and why t...
It took just 80 years for the Roman Empire to fall apart completely, from a ponderous but functional state at the death of Theodosius the Gr...
The Roman world was more than just an empire; it was a cultural, social, economic, and political space built on the easy movement of goods,...
The Roman economy was a marvel, the powerhouse that produced surpluses big enough to support huge cities, maintain an enormous standing army...
The economy of the Roman Empire was surprisingly modern, featuring commercial markets, large-scale production, and agricultural sophisticati...
The Roman army was the central institution in the late Roman world. It had changed dramatically from the classic legions of Augustus and Mar...
Attila the Hun is the best-known barbarian from antiquity, but the Hunnic Empire he inherited and expanded hasn't gotten the credit it deser...
North Africa was the most prosperous region of the western Roman Empire, the agricultural heartland that fed the city of Rome, and the barba...
Gladiators are one of the defining characteristics of the Roman Empire in popular culture. How and why did they disappear? We explore the to...
Gaul was one of the heartlands of the Roman Empire, and it encompassed a tremendous amount of diversity within its borders. Over the course...
In 350, Britain was a thoroughly integrated province of the Roman Empire, full of prosperous, Latin-speaking cities, luxurious villas, and a...
One of the fundamental questions about the later Roman Empire is just what a mess it really was. Did the barbarians topple a fundamentally h...
In 395, the barbarian Goths rebelled against the Romans and fought a campaign that culminated in the sack of Rome in 410. But were the Goths...
In the third episode of The Fall of Rome, we explore the Goths' migration into the Roman Empire and their desperate war for survival against...
We explore the barbarian world beyond the frontiers, focusing on the fearsome Goths who would one day leave an emperor dead on the battlefie...
Barbarians, political breakdown, economic collapse, mass migration, pillaging and plunder. In the introduction to this series, PhD historian...