32 ; Keating , Geoffrey [ 1570 ? –1644 ?; author of LXIX.38 ; LXX.77 . The General History of Ireland ( Dublin , La Bléterie , Jean Philippe René de [ 1696– 1723 ) ] : 1x.13 . 1772 ; Jansenist abbé ; Gibbon owned his Khondemir [ Persian ...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is Edward Gibbon's magnum opus, written and published over a 13-year period beginning in 1776.
This abridged edition compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into a single epic narrative, and features a foreword, introduction, and extended appreciation by Hugh Trevor-Roper, an esteemed professor of history at Oxford University.
The work covers the history of the Roman Empire, Europe, and the Catholic Church from 98 to 1590 and discusses the decline of the Roman Empire in the East and West.
David Womersley's masterly selection and bridging commentary enables the readerto acquire a general sense of the progress and argument of the whole work and displays the full variety of Gibbon's achievement.
From the middle of the second century CE, The Roman Empire faced increasing Germanic tribe infiltration along the Danubian and Rhine borders, and internal political chaos. Without efficient imperial succession,...
Published between 1776 and 1788, this text is acknowledged as a masterpiece of English historical writing.
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Chapter 39 begins a concentration on the Eastern Roman Empire, starting with Theodoric of the Osthrogoths, and the volume continues with Justinian I; Belisarius's invasion of Africa; histories of the Gepidae, the Lombards, and the ...
A history of the Roman and Byzantine Empires, covering a period of thirteen centuries from the age of the Antonines to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks. -- Dust...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject.