Title:
The decline and fall of the Roman empire / Edward Gibbon ; edited and abridged with an introduction and appreciation by Hugh Trevor-Roper.
Author:
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794.
Trevor-Roper, H. R. (Hugh Redwald), 1914-2003.
Publication Information:
London : Phoenix, 2005.
Call Number:
DG311 .G55 2005
Abstract:
This abridged edition of Edward Gibbon's 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' compresses 13 turbulent centuries into a single epic narrative.
Edition:
Abridged ed.
ISBN:
9780753818817
Physical Description:
ix, 679 p. : ill., ports ; 20 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: 1970.
Contents:
The Empire of the Antonines The House of Severus Aurelian and the Restoration of the Empire Diocletian The Progress of Christianity in the Pagan Empire Church and State in the Roman Empire: the Persecution of Diocletian The Rise of Monasticism The Foundation of Constantinople Julian the Apostate and the Pagan Reaction Theodosius the Great and the Final Destruction of Paganism Theology and Faction in the Eastern Empire The End of the Western Empire The Gothic Kingdom of Italy Justinian The Lombard Invasions and Pope Gregory the Great Heraclius The New Byzantine Empire Mohammed The Arab Attack on Europe The Iconoclastic Movement Byzantine Enlightenment, Roman Darkness The Crusades The Mongol Invasions and the Rise of the Ottoman Turks The Fall of Constantinople Medieval Rome
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