The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Edward Gibbon's six-volume history traces the Roman Empire from its second-century height through more than a thousand years of decline, following the story to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and beyond. Across its sweep he examines the rise of Christianity as a state religion, the barbarian invasions, the survival of Byzantium, and the coming of Islam and the Mongols. Gibbon famously argued that Christianity's otherworldly focus sapped Rome's civic vigor, a claim that scandalized his contemporaries. What keeps the work alive, though, is the prose: ironic, balanced, and endlessly quotable, built on a lifetime of reading in the ancient sources. Published between 1776 and 1788, it remains one of the great achievements of English historical writing.
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Book facts
- Author
- Edward Gibbon
- First published
- 1776
- Reading time
- About 116 hours
- Pages
- 3,974
- Language
- English
- Genre
- European History
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