From the reign of Augustus to the time of Alexander Severus, the enemies of Rome were in her bosom; the tyrants, and the soldiers; and her prosperity had a very distant and feeble interest in the revolutions that might happen beyond the Rhine and the Euphrates. But when the military order...
Portrait of Edward Gibbon by Henry Walton, c. 1773 Ruins of the forum, Rome. Photo by Christoph Schmid on UnsplashRelated Articles Leisure The Pleasures of the Underground There are moods – of dissatisfaction and loneliness, panic and despair – when the very best counsel we might ...
Hugh Liebert's new book powerfully argues for a reassessment of Edward Gibbon's relationship to Christianity. Liebert argues that religion's ability to move hearts and influence world events fascinated Gibbon, and that for this reason, he acknowledged the remarkable character o...
II. The second period of the Decline and Fall of Rome may be supposed to commence with the reign of Justinian, who, by his laws, as well as by his victories, restored a transient splendor to the Eastern Empire. It will comprehend the invasion of Italy by the Lombards; the conquest of...
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged) 6.0分 Edward Gibbon Edward Gibbon’s magnum opus narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the ...
Gibbon is called the 1st modern historian of ancient Rome. By virtue of its mostly objective approach & accurate use of reference material, his work was adopted as a model for the methodologies of 19-20th century historians. His pessimism & detached irony was common to the historical genre of...
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire has always maintained its initial appeal to both the general public and scholars alike. Its sheer scale is daunting, encompassing over a millennium of history, covering not merely the Western Empire from the days of the early emperors to its extinction ...
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by an English historian who was inspired to write it when he undertook the Grand Tour and visited Rome as a young man in 1762. The book eventually took more than 20 years to complete and was received with both bouquets and brickbats....
On a visit to Rome in 1764, he decided to writeThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire(6 vol., 1776–88,) the work for which he continues to be best known. Acclaimed as literature as well as history, it narrates the continuity of the Roman Empire from the age of the Roman soldie...
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