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  1. Evolution of the Fourth-century diplomatic paradigm between the Roman Empire and the Barbaricum

    Hi, i'm writing a dissertation for my graduation, and i'm stuck on a subject. Expanding the title, i want to know how the diplomatic relations between Rome and the germanic kingdoms on its borders (Franks, Goths, Alamanni etc) could evolve without the arrival of the Huns. I've recently read...

  2. Earlier conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity

    Hi all. I'd like to ask, as the title says, what evolution could Christianity and the Roman Empire have had if the conversion/tolerance, or better, the positive constantinian policy towards Christianity began earlier. Let's say Diocletian realizes what's going on and puts the zeal that in OTL...

  3. University Dissertation about the Late Roman Empire

    Hi guys, i come here as a history student intent on writing a dissertation to graduate. The theme is late antique history, in particular the developments of aristocraticidentityin Gaul, between the III century crisis and the Merovingian Kingdoms (VII-VIII centuries), and how this identity...

  4. Late Antique historians

    As title says, i'm looking for some good historians about the period from IV to IX centuries. I already read some books by Wickham, and still have to start with Peter Brown's. I have to graduate in history next year, so i thought about gathering some infos and useful insights about the...

  5. Rodney Stark view on the end of the Roman Empire

    I've recently read "How the West won" by Rodney Stark. I know, it's a bit passionate (and explicit) about restoring the old eurocentric view of european history. Some would say it's a piece of propaganda. Anyway, let's put this aside, because reading the part about the fall of the Western...

  6. Institutional differences between Franks, Visigoths and Langobards?

    As the title says, i want to know the cause/origin of the peculiar political/social institutions of the different romano-germanic kingdoms. In particular: -Kingship: plural in the merovingian dominions (but aristocrats were excluded), but monistic in Iberia and Italy (where aristocrats...

  7. Napoleonic military tactics?

    I'm studying seriously the Napoleonic Wars for the first time since hs but i still can't understand how Napoleon managed to.. well, do what he did. Anyway, i would like to know more about the innovations he apported in european military tactics and about his life. Feel free to just throw the...

  8. Orthodox Saxon England?

    I recently knew that Saxon England wasn't aligned with the Papacy, and that Willian the Conqueror's conquest of England was favoured by the Papacy (William brought the papal banner, or something). So, in a survival Saxon England, can we expect some kind of Orthodoxy to develop and eventually...

  9. Persian-derived Russia? And some info on the Sassanids

    As we know, the history of Christian Orthodox Russia began with the conversion of Vladimir of Kiev and of its people. This marked russian identity forever, and they called themselves the Third Rome after Byzantium fell to the Ottomans. Is it feasible to have the same (a marginal political...

  10. Byzantine decline after Basil II

    What was the reason of the Empire's decline? I often hear that aristocrats were accumulating wealth and this weakened the state, but is it really true? Also, was the conflict between civil aristocracy and military one during the X century a cause or symptom of the decline? Also, why was the...

  11. Pre-industrial era inventions that could have been invented in the middle ages

    As title says. I'm writing an alternate history (with some fantasy) book and i need some ideas to have the late middle ages look more modern. I need a list of advancements that could have been made without resorting to an industrial revolution. So, what are some pre-1750 inventions that could...

  12. Different Diocletian partition of the Roman Empire

    What is the best division possible to get three roman empires and to get the central one to survive? My idea is to leave the Persians to the Eastern one and the Low Danube (to lift the burden from the Central Empire). The Western Empire would hold the Briton border and the Rhine, along...

  13. Roman Balkans

    How urbanized were the Balkans before the Slavic/Bulgarian migrations in the area? With the frontier on the Danube, was the Balkan peninsula worth keeping, in terms of revenues and manpower, in the late roman era? Also, how hard was the impact of the Slavic migrations in the urban texture...

  14. Was Roman civilization not European?

    Inspired by this thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=144730 There are exposed some of the reasons why Rome did not manage to conquer all of Europe, failing to become the European equivalent of China: not enough cultural depth, geographical differences...

  15. Celtic Rome

    In an old thread i heard about the reason Rome couldn't become an European empire, because it was more Mediterranean oriented (or so i think). For this reason, i would like to know what are the odds of a city state emerging in Gallia, and absorbing the civic greek traditions (and the etruscan...

  16. Austrian Northern Italy?

    With a POD after 1815, could it be possible for the Austrian Empire to keep hold of its Italian territories, but lose the Hungarian ones, while keeping everything else (Bohemia, Croatia, Slovenia and some germanized parts of Galicia)? If yes, is anyone knowledgeable enough to set up some kind...

  17. Carthage's refugees?

    Hi everyone, this is my first post here. :p Browsing the internet i found some theories about carthaginians fleeing to South America after the third punic war. This is probably ASB, but what if they made it to West Africa? They could have enstablished some colonies like Carthage itself were. A...
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