doi:10.1080/01916599.2022.2095526R. J. W. MillsHistory of European Ideas
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...
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 ...
Fall of the Roman Empire | History & Causes from Chapter 5 / Lesson 9 286K Learn more about the fall of Rome to find out who defeated the Romans. Explore the reasons for the collapse of the Roman Empire and a timeline of events. Related...
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...
“M d’Anville has given, in the Memoires of the Academy for the year 1756 (tom xxx p 198-236), a plan of Rome on a smaller scale, but far more accurate than that which he delineated in 1738 for Rollin’s history. Experience had improved his knowledge, and, instead of Rossi’s ...
They have been predicting "the fall of America" for years, in the way thatGibbondescribed the fall of Rome. 以英国历史学家吉本预言罗马帝国衰落的方式,法国人已经预言美国的衰落很多年了。 属类:英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org- In a chapter he regards EdwardGibbonand Samuel Johnson’s style as pompou...
1 With a few notable exceptions, Gibbon's critics display an uneasiness somewhere or other in their discussions of the great historian. Historiographers are inclined to fidget over Gibbon's apparent refusal to explain precisely why Rome fell and often end by discussing his style. Ecclesiastical ...
whoinDeConstantiaandtheScienzaNuovalocatesSesostrisattheverybeginningof"human"time.Thismarksa radicaldepartureinbiblicalstudies:byplacingancientHebrewhistoryinamuchbroadercontext,theRome-orientedapproachtypicalofAugustinianhisto-riography—ofwhichBossuet,attheendoftheseventeenthcentury,wasthemostauthoritativeexponent—was...