# Bury’s Later Roman Empire, as publicly scanned, restates Eastern tribute bargains with Attila

Date: 1923

## The fact

J. B. Bury’s History of the Later Roman Empire, in the public 1923 text now scanned, restates Priscus-based bargains by which the Eastern court paid Attila. This Fact stores tribute as a received extractive institution dated via that modern history, not as a signed 447 PDF.

## Context

Tribute can buy quiet and can drain a fiscal system. Both can be true. Exact pound totals in later schoolbooks are often rounded; they are not upgraded here to original statistics.

Attila is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Bury on Internet Archive and Britannica’s Theodosius II / Attila pages independently narrate the tribute relationship.

Official or archival record: J. B. Bury, History of the Later Roman Empire — Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/historyoflaterro01buryuoft; Internet Archive).

## Significance

Extractive gold transfer. Medium confidence on amounts, high on the received institution.

A tribute clause in Priscus is not a World Bank series. Do not invent one.

## What is established and what is not

Established: standard modern histories record Eastern payments to Attila. Not established: a Factrail original talent figure.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [income-inequality](/drivers/income-inequality). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Attila: https://factrail.ai/people/attila

## Drivers

- Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodosius-II
- https://archive.org/details/historyoflaterro01buryuoft

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/at-tribute-bury-edition