Friends, Romans or countrymen? Barbarians in the empire. (Roman Empire) (Cover Story)

History Today | July 1, 1994| | Copyright

Lead in the water, over-indulgent lifestyles, rampant inflation -- the list of explanations for the fall of the Roman Empire in the west has been endless. But in a new study, Stephen Williams and Gerard Friell turn the spotlight on the |barbarians' who shored up Rome's armies and frontiers, and discuss if they were Rome's salvation or doom.

The importing of tribal |barbarian' peoples (mainly Germanic) into the Roman Empire was a permanent imperial policy which expanded in scale over the centuries, and was continued by Byzantium after the Western empire had crumbled ...

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