Late Roman Bureaucrats: Why they were crucial for Imperial unity, and Imperial disintegration

Central to the governing of the Late Roman Empire were its bureaucrats, and it is to them that we can turn to see how and why the Empire was held together in Late Antiquity, and partially how and why it broke up.

SOURCES:
Barbarian Migrations & the Roman West, Halsall
Through the Eye of a Nelde, Brown
How Rome Fell, Goldsworthy
The Fall of the Roman Empire, Heather

Late Roman EmpireA history of the later Roman EmpireRoman bureaucracy