Rome had fallen in the West—but the story wasn't over. In the chaos that followed the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, a Germanic people known as the Lombards crossed into Italy and took control of large parts of the former Roman heartland. They didn't simply raid and disappear. They built a kingdom that lasted for centuries, fought the Byzantines, battled the Franks, converted to Christianity, and left their mark on the political map of Europe. So who were the Lombards? Why did they invade Italy? And how did a Germanic kingdom rise in the very heart of the old Roman world? The Roman Empire was gone. But in Italy, a new power was just getting started.

The Lombards: The Germanic Warriors Who Conquered Roman Italy

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