Constantinople with the traditional insignia
                    
Odoacer went on to behave in as natural and Roman a way as one could expect. He sent ambassadors to Constantinople with the traditional...                
                
            Severinus’s death left the community at the mercy of brutes
                    
Severinus’s death left the community at the mercy of brutes. A bad barbarian (a son of the good king we just heard of) sacked...                
                
            Rebaptize catholic Christians
                    
His world was full of good barbarians and bad barbarians. Roman forces—or, to be more precise, the forces that Rome paid—were fading away, leaving...                
                
            