The Emperor Theodosius
David Jones profiles the man of whom Gibbon wrote: ‘the genius of Rome expired with Theodosius’.
David Jones profiles the man of whom Gibbon wrote: ‘the genius of Rome expired with Theodosius’.
David Jones describes how romanized Gothic and Vandal leaders overran the capital of a declining Empire in the fifth century.
Towards the end of the fourth century, writes David Jones, a Spanish emperor from Britain and his Welsh empress held their spendid court in a city on the Moselle.