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So-Called Dark Ages

Attila Invictus

In the eighth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the Huns’ increasingly violent incursions into the Eastern half of the Roman Empire.

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Detail of Delacroix’s painting of Attila on a rearing white horse, from Attila and His Hordes Overrun Italy and the Arts.
Detail from Attila and his Hordes Overrun Italy and the Arts, by French artist Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863).