Explore how the Goths played a decisive role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire through a series of migrations, military confrontations, and political upheavals. From the catastrophic Battle ...

Under the Roman empire, when the Mediterranean became a Roman lake, piracy was almost completely suppressed, since there was no place on the coast that was not under imperial rule.

The Hernici were allied with Rome during the early years of the Roman Republic, and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it was a free commune and later a fief of the Papal States.

Rome was sacked by Germanic Visigoths in 410, and then in 476, Germanic leader Odoacer deposed the last Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus. It seems to fit the brief of a societal collapse.

They read Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume I published in 1776—what timing!) and fretted that their republic would follow the fate of the licentious Roman Empire.

Downfall The decline and eventual “fall” of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE was not due to a single event, but rather a series of factors that gradually weakened it over centuries.

The fall of the western Roman empire was a death by a thousand cuts, but one that cut deeper than most was bureaucracy. It fell under the weight of its own stubbornness.

Plato's School (detail), by Jean Delville (1898). Source: Wikimedia commons/Public domain After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the knowledge of Greek was lost in the West. In around 321 CE ...

If the Roman Empire converting to Catholicism was a miracle, Catholicism enduring beyond the Roman Empire’s fall was even more miraculous. Leo is thus a fitting name for a pope to bear in our ...

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, its legacy didn't vanish - it was pursued, claimed, and reimagined. In this video, we trace the many powers that sought to inherit Rome’s authority ...