Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
#westernromanempire #history #civilwar
A documentary about the rise, reign and fall of the Romano-British usurper Flavius Claudius Constantine III.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:30 The Barbarian Invasions AD395-406
03:56 Britannia Revolts
07:51 Constantine III
13:15 Stilicho's Destruction
15:53 The War of Four Emperors
21:40 Fall of Constantine III
Bibliography:
Primary Sources
Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, CIG.
Frigeridus, Histories, edited and translated by L. Van Hoof, and P. Van Nuffelen, The Fragmentary Latin Histories of Late Antiquity (AD 300-620) (Cambridge, 2020).
Jerome, Letters, translated by W. H. Fremantle, G. Lewis and W. G. Martley, From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 6, (Buffalo, NY1893).
Orosius, Seven Books of History Against the Pagans, Translated by A. T. Fear, (2010).
Zosimus, New History, Translated by R. T. Ridley, (1986).
Scholarship
Abdy, R. 'The Patching Hoard', in The Late Roman Silver Treasure from Traprain Law, (2022), 107-115.
Drinkwater, J. F., 'The Usurpers Constantine III and Jovinus' in Britannia 29 (1998), 269-298.
Kulikowski, M., 'Barbarians in Gaul, Usurpers in Britain' in Britannia 31, (2000), 325-345.
Moorhead, S. and Walton, P., 'Coinage at the End of Roman Britain' in AD410 The History and Archaeology of Late and Post-Roman Britain, (2014), 99-116.
Moorhead, S. 'The Coinage of the Later Roman Empire, 364-498' in The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coins, (2012), 601-632.
Wijnendaele, J. W. P. '‘Dagli altari alla polvere.’ Alaric, Constantine III, and the downfall of Stilicho' in Journal of Ancient History 6.2 (2018), 260-277.
Email
easternromanhistory@gmail.com
Discord
discord.gg/wxVmswV
If you would like to support Eastern Roman History, I have a Patreon:
patreon.com/EasternRomanHistory
Music Credits:
'Time', 'Enmity', 'Shadows' by Ed Lima and Steve Maitland from Empire Earth.
'Mayhem', 'Warrior March', 'Time 2 Kill', 'Lost Souls' by Jeff van Dyke from Rome Total War.
'Euro Battle 1' Jeff van Dyke from Medieval Total War.
'Western Greek Mobilise Theme', 'Western Greek Battle Theme', 'Barbarian Battle Theme', by Morgan Casey and Nick Wylie from Europa Barbarorum: A Modification of Rome Total War.
All images used are for educational purposes, if I have used a piece of art and you would like me to credit you, please contact me and I shall do so.
#westernromanempire #history #civilwar
A documentary about the rise, reign and fall of the Romano-British usurper Flavius Claudius Constantine III.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:30 The Barbarian Invasions AD395-406
03:56 Britannia Revolts
07:51 Constantine III
13:15 Stilicho's Destruction
15:53 The War of Four Emperors
21:40 Fall of Constantine III
Bibliography:
Primary Sources
Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, CIG.
Frigeridus, Histories, edited and translated by L. Van Hoof, and P. Van Nuffelen, The Fragmentary Latin Histories of Late Antiquity (AD 300-620) (Cambridge, 2020).
Jerome, Letters, translated by W. H. Fremantle, G. Lewis and W. G. Martley, From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 6, (Buffalo, NY1893).
Orosius, Seven Books of History Against the Pagans, Translated by A. T. Fear, (2010).
Zosimus, New History, Translated by R. T. Ridley, (1986).
Scholarship
Abdy, R. 'The Patching Hoard', in The Late Roman Silver Treasure from Traprain Law, (2022), 107-115.
Drinkwater, J. F., 'The Usurpers Constantine III and Jovinus' in Britannia 29 (1998), 269-298.
Kulikowski, M., 'Barbarians in Gaul, Usurpers in Britain' in Britannia 31, (2000), 325-345.
Moorhead, S. and Walton, P., 'Coinage at the End of Roman Britain' in AD410 The History and Archaeology of Late and Post-Roman Britain, (2014), 99-116.
Moorhead, S. 'The Coinage of the Later Roman Empire, 364-498' in The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coins, (2012), 601-632.
Wijnendaele, J. W. P. '‘Dagli altari alla polvere.’ Alaric, Constantine III, and the downfall of Stilicho' in Journal of Ancient History 6.2 (2018), 260-277.
easternromanhistory@gmail.com
Discord
discord.gg/wxVmswV
If you would like to support Eastern Roman History, I have a Patreon:
patreon.com/EasternRomanHistory
Music Credits:
'Time', 'Enmity', 'Shadows' by Ed Lima and Steve Maitland from Empire Earth.
'Mayhem', 'Warrior March', 'Time 2 Kill', 'Lost Souls' by Jeff van Dyke from Rome Total War.
'Euro Battle 1' Jeff van Dyke from Medieval Total War.
'Western Greek Mobilise Theme', 'Western Greek Battle Theme', 'Barbarian Battle Theme', by Morgan Casey and Nick Wylie from Europa Barbarorum: A Modification of Rome Total War.
All images used are for educational purposes, if I have used a piece of art and you would like me to credit you, please contact me and I shall do so.
