Lecture based on the forthcoming book: Sam Moorhead and David Stuttard, AD 410 The Year that Shook Rome (British Museum Press, 2010)

3. Barbarian Raids across Europe in the 260s AD

7. Enter Diocletian AD 284 Tetrarchs in Venice

8. Class fixing Piercebridge Ploughman

9. Rich getting richer Hoxne Treasure, Suffolk

10. Enter Constantine and Christianity

11. The barbarian invasions 376-407

12. Across the Danube

13. Crisis at Hadrianople, 378

14. Division of Empire, AD 395

15. Order Restored? Suppliant Goths under Theodosius’ family at Constantinople

16. Battle of the River Frigidus, AD 394 Eugenius Theodosius I The Roman army; citizens and increasingly barbarians

17. Alaric unleashed - 395… Ludwig Thiersch

18. Alaric moves West – 401-3

19. Honorius flees to Ravenna

20. Usurpers and barbarians in Gaul Constantine III 407-11

21. Alaric besieges Rome 408

22. Fruitless negotiations Priscus Attalus 409-10 St Apollinaire, Ravenna

24. Kenneth Setton, 1962

25. Meanwhile in Ravenna… John W. Waterhouse, 1883

26. How should we view the barbarians?

27. What did they want? Esquiline Treasure, Rome (British Museum)

28. Who were they? Refugees?

29. Economic Migrants?

30. Controlling access

31. A threat to authority?

32. Clash with authority

33. Migrant Workers

34. Swelling the ranks

35. The old order of Rome Symmachus, the Senate and Honorius

36. The old order in the West?

37. Does the world need new leaders to face these changes?

38. The Road to Africa The fields of Dougga Appian Way

39. Burial of Alaric, 410/11 Lithograph, 1895

40. Galla Placidia c.388-450

41. Wedding of Galla Placidia

43. Vandals take Africa, AD 439

44. The barbarian dream?

46. What of Rome? Last emperor of the West, Romulus Augustulus, deposed in AD 476

47. Ostrogothic Rome, AD 49

51. Cannon: 14 feet; 15 tons; 500lb stone ball; Walls of Theodosius

52. Mehmet II; Hagia Sophia as a Mosque