![]() ![]() The Roman authorities had no better idea of how to deal with this crisis than our own authorities do, and, predictably, they were less humane. What we often call the “invasions” into the Roman empire of barbarian hordes (or “swarms”, perhaps) could equally well be described as mass movements of economic migrants or political refugees from northern Europe. B y the late fourth century CE the river Danube had become Rome’s Calais.
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