Rome against Attila - Late Roman Empire

When Theodosius and his nephew Valentinian ruled over the roman world, the timeline was shaped by civil war, rebellions, invasions, religious conflicts and rotting institutions. Marking the end of an era, two men will fight in the last great battle of the period.

⏰ Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
0:41 - Succession crisis
2:14 - Civil War
3:40 - Nestorianism
5:04 - Rising pressure
6:08 - Gallic campaigns
7:38 -The eastern court
8:36 - Gaiseric and Attila
10:58 - Monophysitism
13:11 - The invasion of Gaul
14:42 - Catalaunian plains
16:55 - Attila, Aetius, Valentinian, Rome
19:15 - Conclusion

🎵 Music
Defending the Keep
The Lifeguard
Monuments
Village in ruins
Walk with legends
Controlled collisisions
New civilisations
Until it runs out
Weapons of impact
no time to fear
Secret cargo
Protectors of the sky
Underlying the truth
Symphony of the cold blooded

📚 Main sources
- Hugh Elton, The Roman Empire of Late Antiquity; 2016
- Morisson Cécile, Le Monde Byzantin I - L'empire rome d'Orient (330-641): puf; 2012
- Becheau F. Histoire des conciles : Christ, Source de vie; 2004

🌐 Internet sources
- Wikipedia fr eng, 2021

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[cemkesici]

Valentinian was told "You severed your right arm with your left." after killing Aetius.

[Ghost]

Amazing quality ! I need to brace myself once more, so that manly tears won't be spilled for Majorian. It's been rough enough already with both Stilicho and Aetius.

[artman]

Valentinian III, when looking at Honorius...
"It's like poetry, sort of. They rhyme. Every stanza kind of rhymes with the last one. Hopefully it'll work."

[xenoboy]

Reading about this period can be very confusing with so many moving parts and important figures, but your visual and narrative style makes it so clear. Best videos on the Late Roman Empire I've seen

[flatplutosociety]

thought it said 670 thousand not just 670 criminally underrated channel, keep this up

[DesertAres]

Brilliant video as usual! It's so great to hear the details and clearly defined characters of this period. It seems to me that as an empire gets smaller, the civil wars and treachery become ever present.

[GG-bwuz]

What a channel. Pure beauty. Wish had some money, would've given hundreds. Animations are just eye candy. A joy to watch.

[chrisand]

My eyes lit up when I saw the video come up 👍 Great video as always amigo!!

[vincentguy]

The beginning of the end and the last of the Romans. Bravo for this video

[geovanaborgo]

New subscriber here!
Excellent work at tackling one of the most interesting periods in Roman history.

[marcoslce]

Man, really good work. Comment for référence on yt

[andreasandreotti]

Nice atempt to narrate so many years of the Roman empire- Edward Gibbon is the best historian that describes all the wars, revolt, religious conflicts, usurpators, inventions and trubbles from Augustus to Konstantine last emperor of the Byzantines concured by the Ottomans!

[nintendo_fan-]

History always have parallels.
Ioannes= Issac II
Valentinian III= Alexios III
Petronius Maximus= Alexios IV

[nintendo_fan-]

I hate Petronius Maximus more than Valentinian III because he was the Alexios IV of the Western Empire.

[annasimpson]

Attila takes a new wife and dies the same night? Mysterious. Can't imagine what might have happened there

[chakraborty]

Wonder what if Johannes won the civil war and establish a fully independent independent Western court away from theodosian influence

[marcionphilologos]

Predominant a correct representation of facts. Only the battle at the Catalaunian fields seems incorrect to me: Two big armies did stand in opposition to each other, but the historians did only mention the cavalry battle between the Huns and Visigoths. THE HUNS AT THE CENTRE (50.000 MEN) DID SHOOT MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF ARROWS AT THE ROMAN FALANX, YET WAS ATTTACKED BY THE HEAVELY ARMED VISIGOTH CAVALRY (30.000 MEN). THE BATTLE WAS LONG AND HARD, BUT ULTIMATE WON BY THE VISIGOTHS. IT SEEMS OBVIOUSLY THAT GOTHS/ GEPIDS DID NOT INTERFERE AND WERE AMUSED WITH THE BEATING OF THE HUNS. THE DEFEAT OF THE HUNS AND THE 'TREASON' MADE ATTILA FURIOUS AND CONSEQUENTLY ATTACKED NOTHERN ITALY without the help of the Goths. AFTER THE DEATH OF ATTILA WOULD THE GOTHS AND GEPIDS SWITCH SIDES AND ATTACK THE UGLY, PAGAN HUNS, PUSHING THEM OUT OF EUROPE.

[LukeWiltsie]

Who was the emperor on the coin in the thumbnail?

[roycejames]

Trusting barbaric peoples never seemed to work out for Rome

[poocabraxi]

I DONT GET HOW YOU APPLAUD THIS MAP PRESENTATION THIS IS VAUGE I APPRECIATE THE DETAILS IN THE COMMENTARY BUT THIS MAP MESH IS NOT WORTH IT TO BE FOR HISTORY ABOUT THE HUNNIC EMPIRE CRAPPY AS HELL 🙄