The Fall of the Western Roman Empire: A Singular Cause or a Multifaceted Process?
Introduction
The year 476 CE, when the last Western Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed by the Germanic chieftain Odoacer, serves as the symbolic end of the Western Roman Empire. This event has long been the subject of intense historical debate. While 18th-century historian Edward Gibbon famously attributed the decline to internal decay and the rise of Christianity, modern scholarship lRead More…