The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

By: Edward Gibbon, Hugh Trevor-Roper

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Paperback | 4 August 2005 | Edition Number 1

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Gripping, powerfully intelligent, and wonderfully entertaining, Gibbon's classic account of Rome ranks as one of the literary masterpieces of its age. Attacked for its enlightened views on politics, sexuality, and religion, the first volume was nonetheless found on every table and received widespread acclaim for its elegant prose. Famously skeptical about Christianity, unexpectedly sympathetic to the barbarian invaders and the Byzantine Empire, constantly aware of how political leaders often achieve the exact opposite of what they intend, Gibbon captured both the broad pattern of events and the significant revealing detail. 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.

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"[Gibbon] stood on the summit of the Renaissance achievement and looked back over the waste of history to ancient Rome, as from one mountain top to another."--Christopher Dawson

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Introduction	p. VII
The Empire of the Antonines	p. 1
The House of Severus	p. 40
Aurelian and the Restoration of the Empire	p. 68
Diocletian	p. 104
The Progress of Christianity in the Pagan Empire	p. 123
Church and State in the Roman Empire: the Persecution of Diocletian	p. 188
The Rise of Monasticism	p. 213
The Foundation of Constantinople	p. 230
Julian the Apostate and the Pagan Reaction	p. 247
Theodosius the Great and the Final Destruction of Paganism	p. 268
Theology and Faction in the Eastern Empire	p. 293
The End of the Western Empire	p. 325
The Gothic Kingdom of Italy	p. 336
Justinian	p. 353
The Lombard Invasions and Pope Gregory the Great	p. 395
Heraclius	p. 411
The New Byzantine Empire	p. 436
Mohammed	p. 443
The Arab Attack on Europe	p. 487
The Iconoclastic Movement	p. 504
Byzantine Enlightenment, Roman Darkness	p. 524
The Crusades	p. 534
The Mongol Invasions and the Rise of the Ottoman Turks	p. 571
The Fall of Constantinople	p. 591
Medieval Rome	p. 626
Appreciation	p. 647
Sources of the Illustrations	p. 679
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