Abstract
This chapter traces the development of the Roman world in the period leading up to the demise of Roman political and military power in the West in the fifth century. Particular emphasis is placed on the development of Roman social and economic institutions, Roman concepts of identity and gender, the ideology and culture of the Roman elite, and the critical military vulnerability of the empire to events beyond the Rhine and Danube across the world of the West Eurasian Steppe. The military crisis resultant from Hunnic expansion in the fifth century is then charted, as is the failure of the empire’s military response.
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