HIST-211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 66: Lombards, Romulus Augustulus, Fritigern
23 Sep 2020
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These groups worshipped a range of polytheistic deities. In the mid 4th century, the arian missionary ulfilas brought christianity to some germanic groups. The vandals, visigoths, and ostrogoths kept arian christianity alive. In 376 ce, the huns arrived in eastern europe, pressing the germanic groups west. This led some groups like the goths under fritigern to turn on the roman forces: battle of adrianople. In 378 ce, fritigern worn a decisive battle against the romans at adrianople. Stilicho rose to a high rank under honorius. In 410 ce, the visigoth alaric sacked rome itself: the sack of rome. Militarily, alaric"s sack of rome was a setback, not a conquest. The idea of rome"s defeat occupied the minds of roman christians and non-christian alike: attila. From 433 to 453 ce, attila"s huns advanced on western europe with greater force. In 451 ce, a joint roman germanic army defeated the huns.
