Fall of Rome Roman-Persian Wars Societal collapse Societal transformation Notes References Alexander Demandt (1984). Der Fall Roms: Die Auflösung des römischen Reiches im Urteil der Nachwelt. Edward Gibbon. General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West, from the Internet Medieval Sourcebook. Brief excerpts of Gibbon's theories (online). William Carroll Bark (1958). Origins of the Medieval World. Drasch, G A (1982). Lead burden in prehistorical, historical and modern human bodies. The Science of the Total Environment Scarborough, John (1984). The Myth of Lead Poisoning Among the Romans: An Essay Review Further reading Robert J. Antonio. "The Contradiction of Domination and Production in Bureaucracy: The Contribution of Organizational Efficiency to the Decline of the Roman Empire," American Sociological Review Vol. 44, No. 6 (Dec., 1979), pp. 895–912 in JSTOR Arther Ferrill The Fall of the Roman Empire: The Military Explanation 0500274959 (1998). Adrian Goldsworthy. How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower(2009); published in Britain as The Fall of the West: The Death of the Roman Superpower (2010) Guy Halsall. Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West (Cambridge U.P., 2007) excerpt and text search Peter Heather. "The Huns and the End of the Roman Empire in Western Europe," '"English Historical Review Vol. 110, No. 435 (Feb., 1995), pp. 4-41 in JSTOR Peter Heather. Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe (Oxford University Press; 2010); 734 pages; Examines the migrations, trade, and other phenomena that shaped a recognizable entity of Europe in the first millennium. excerpt and text search Heather, Peter, The Fall of the Roman Empire, 2005, , offers a narrative of the final years, in the tradition of Gibson or Bury, plus incorporates latest archaeological evidence and other recent findings. Jones, A. H. M. The Later Roman Empire, 284-602: A Social, Economic, and Administrative Survey (2 Vol. 1964) excerpt and text search Kagan, Donald, ed. The End of the Roman Empire: Decline or Transformation?, (3rd edition 1992) – excerpts from historians Mitchell, Stephen, A History of the Later Roman Empire, AD 284-641: The Transformation of the Ancient World (2006) "The Fall of Rome – an author dialogue" Part I and Part 2: Oxford professors Bryan Ward-Perkins and Peter Heather discuss The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization and The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians. Monigliano, Arnoldo. "Gibbon's Contribution to Historical Method," Studies in Historiography