The Barbarian Invasions
Invasion Rome and Persia threatened by nomadic migrations in the 300’s. – Rome Huns Germanic peoples Germans take over the Western Roman Empire 476 CE. – Eastern Roman Empire remained intact, with capital at Constantinople.
Invasion or migration? Did Rome lose... or fail?
Roman Empire recovers under Justinian, 527 CE. – Took back much of the Western Mediterranean from Germans. – Justinian reformed Roman law, Codex Digests Institutions.
Barbarian Invasions of Rome Goths (Ostrogoths, Visigoths) – Out of Scandinavia – Ostrogoths settle in northern Italy – Visigoths settle in Spain Vandals – Settle in North Africa Huns – Out of Central Asia – Defeated at Chalons, 451
The Celts Rome’s “Original” Barbarians By 500 BCE By 275 BCE
Revived Roman Empire under Justinian I
"Solomon I have outdone thee."
Codex Justinianus (Corpus Juris Civilis) – Codex - A listing of edicts to 529 – Digest - Collected Roman legal writings – Institutions - Student textbook The foundation of: – European civil law – Canon law