Internet History Sourcebooks: Medieval Sourcebook

Historians now often talk about ‘the crisis’ of the third century CE. What they mean is the process by which, after the assassination of Commodus in 192 CE, the Augustan template collapsed. The number of emperors is one obvious sign of that. In the nearly 180 years between 14 and 192 CE – apart from the single brief interlude of civil war after the

While other parts of the world continued to tell their histories by word of mouth and myth, governments and independent scholars of the Classical Age empires began to document human history in detail for perpetuity.