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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Turning Points
Chapter 1: Two Reasons for Rome’s Problems – Did They Make Collapse More Likely? Were They Avoidable?
(a) Military ‘What Ifs’ from AD9
(b) Instability from AD180
Chapter 2: The Roman World – The Western Empire in the Fifth Century
Chapter 3: Inherited Problems, the Nature of Roman Instability in Transmitting Power, and What Could Easily have Happened
Earlier 'What Ifs': the crises that led to the creation of the later Empire.
Part II: Consequences
Chapter 4: Western Empire: the British Isles, the Vikings, and North-eastern Germany
1. A kingdom of Britain. Roman Britain survives – no successful Anglo-Saxon invasion?
2. Continental developments. The Roman Empire annexes Jutland
3. Ireland. Pro-Roman client High King established in Ireland
4. Dalriada and the Irish overseas. Irish missionaries convert pagan central Europe?
5. Western Christianity – Emperor and Pope. Papacy remains subordinate to Imperial interests
6. Military matters. Western Empire able to hold off and subordinate Germanic tribes
7. The Viking threat. Viking invasions of Britain and France repulsed
Chapter 5: The Western World – Some Further Speculation
8. Rome in the Americas?
9. Rome and the civilizations of Mexico
10. The conquest of Mexico and North America. Rome versus the Vikings?
11. Society in post-fifth century Roman Europe
12. The steppes – and the Mongols
13. Religion – an Imperial-led Reformation?
Chapter 6: The Eastern Empire – Effects of the Survival of the Western Empire
14. The sixth and seventh centuries – a far stronger reaction to the Avars, Persia, and the Arabs?
15. The Northern frontier – less of a tribal threat to the Balkans?
16. A lesser Balkan threat – no Eastern Roman collapse after 602?
17. Long-term results in the Middle East – effects on the Arab invasions?
18. After the seventh century. The Eastern Empire versus the Turks in the eleventh century – any difference from reality?
19. The Eastern and the Western Empires confront the Mongols
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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