By Charles L. Mee Jr.
When Pope Leo the nice rode out of Rome in 452 A.D. to satisfy Attila the Hun, he had no fingers, no military, no armor, no bodyguards, no nice retinue of ambassadors and advisers, increase males and zone experts. He went out purely with a number of fellow churchmen using along him and a pair of lesser officers of the enfeebled and fading Roman Empire.
Attila got here to the stumble upon on the head of a giant, well-armed, battle-hardened military of Huns on horseback. the 2 males met simply because Attila and his fans, having plundered the northern Italian peninsula, have been on their method south, with the obvious goal of sacking Rome. Leo's job was once to cajole Attila to not plunder and burn the heart of Western civilization.
Here, during this short-form publication through award-winning writer Charles L. Mee, Jr., is outstanding tale of that fateful stumble upon and its aftermath.
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They moved, perhaps in search of better pastures, toward the west. Naturally enough, they encountered the resistance of their neighbors as they went, and they set off a succession of wars. According to Ammianus, they made their “violent way amid the rapine and slaughter of the neighboring peoples” as far west as the banks of the Don River itself. There they met, killed, and plundered the Alans, joined in alliance with some of the survivors, and sent others of the Alans fleeing ahead to the west, where they attacked the Goths, and the Goths, in their turn, fell upon their neighbors.
Augustine in Africa wrote in his great work The City of God that the destruction of the temporal city of Rome was nothing compared with the everlasting kingdom of God. In this moment, one can feel the shift in the allegiance of the Western world from the Roman Empire to the Christian church. The Huns appeared for the first time in Italy at the mountain passes of the Julian Alps above Trieste. It was June of the year 452. According to some sources, an army of 300,000 soldiers came over the Alps, according to others as many as 500,000.
And when they were on the move, they lived in tents of felt and sheepskin. Like the Mongolian yurts that are still in use today, these tents must have been spacious, airy, clean, and with woolen carpets laid down for floors, quite comfortable. According to Ammianus, they had all sorts of animals, but the basis of their economy was sheep. They ate mutton and cheese and drank milk from their sheep. Their shoes were made of sheep leather, their hats were felt, made from sheep’s wool. They were not enthusiastic farmers.