Up until the 1960’s, academic research mainly attributed the fall of the Roman Empire to the Roman Empire’s internal turmoil, its deep structural trouble. Professor Heather first delineated the ‘Old Model’ claims about what instigated the Roman demise. How did something so immense and so long-standing like the Roman Empire lose its power? Professor Heather discussed various factors such as Christianity, monetary problems, military troubles, and the Barbarian invasion that scholars claim to be the causes of the Roman Empire’s collapse. Furthermore, there are different models of thought that emphasize some of the just-mentioned factors while dismissing others.
“No empire lasts forever,” Professor Heather said, and added that the fall of the Roman Empire continues to be an interesting and popular topic precisely because “empires are often ending.” Professor Heather began by stating that the Roman, Ottoman and British empires have fallen that the American empire is falling and that according to this trend, the forthcoming Chinese Empire will also fall at some point.
On Friday, 4 th February, 2011, Professor Peter Heather of King’s College London gave a lecture on the fall of Rome to students of the ‘Conservatism & Reaction’ course. “Teacher: How was the Roman Empire cut in half?
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