It’s naturally mentioned in the article, as one of the main sources for the period, but I’ve always enjoyed Priscus’s account of his dinner with Attila: https:

It’s naturally mentioned in the article, as one of the main sources for the period, but I’ve always enjoyed Priscus’s account of his dinner with Attila: https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/priscus.html https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/priscus.html Meanwhile, this is an interesting paper. Kyle Harper’s The Fate of Rome advances climate change and disease as some primary drivers of the Western Empire’s collapse, both internally and externally. He uses a somewhat hotly contested theory that the Huns were actually driven from as far away as Tibet by drought (the evidence of drought in the East from juniper tree rings mentioned in the article is quite strong). But clearly drought affected peoples far to the West as well so the argument need not rest in the Hun-Xiongnu link. Of course, it’s still fairly likely that the empire would have fallen even if the Huns had retired to some quiet, evergreen pasture elsewhere.