History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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- Paperback
585 pages
- Release Date
4 January 2023
Summary
Edward Gibbon’s “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” is a monumental six-volume work that covers the history of the Roman Empire from the end of the 2nd century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The book is considered one of the greatest works of historical literature in the English language and has had a profound influence on the way we understand the ancient world.
Gibbon’s approach to history was heavily influenced by the Enlightenment, and he sought to…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789357488020 |
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| ISBN-10: | 9357488022 |
| Author: | Edward Gibbon |
| Publisher: | Double 9 Books LLP |
| Imprint: | Double 9 Books LLP |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 585 |
| Release Date: | 4 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 878g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm |
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About The Author
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon (May 8, 1737 – January 16, 1794) was an English parliamentarian, historian, and writer. He is best known as the author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. The work is renowned for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical critique of organized religion. After an illness in 1752, Gibbon went to Bath to recuperate. At age 15, his father sent him to Magdalen College, Oxford, as a gentleman commoner; however, he found the college uncongenial and later described his 14 months there as “the most idle and unprofitable” of his life. He spent five years in Lausanne, reading works by Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, John Locke, Pierre Bayle, and Blaise Pascal, and traveled throughout Switzerland to study the constitutions of its cantons.
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