Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the "Barbarian Conspiracy," a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new Cambridge-led study in Climatic Change reveals. Researchers argue ...

The end of Rome supposedly came as suddenly as thunder, relative to history’s long arc. The legions withdraw from their frontiers, opening the door to the barbarian hoards descending from the misty ...

A severe three-year drought helped bring about a "barbarian" invasion of Roman Britain in A.D. 367, a new study finds. In that year, Roman troops stationed at Hadrian's Wall on the empire's northern ...

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The British academic publisher, Routledge, has launched “Routledge Revivals” to re-issue some classic works that have been long out of print. Originally published in 1983, Barbarians and Romans is a ...

The fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD was a pivotal moment in human history, when Germanic chieftain Odoacer deposed teenage emperor Romulus Augustulus in Italy and set in motion the collapse ...