The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePenguin UK, 19. juni 2000 - 848 sider Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. 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. |
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... military commanders, such as Attila the Hun. Gibbon's portrait of this leader reflects back tellingly on his understanding of the imperial twilight in western Europe. Gibbon begins by emphasizing that Attila's military conquests were ...
... military commanders, such as Attila the Hun. Gibbon's portrait of this leader reflects back tellingly on his understanding of the imperial twilight in western Europe. Gibbon begins by emphasizing that Attila's military conquests were ...
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... advances in material prosperity which had accompanied what he recognizes had also been years of military set-back and political corruption: Justinian reigned over sixty-four provinces, and nine hundred and thirty-five.
... advances in material prosperity which had accompanied what he recognizes had also been years of military set-back and political corruption: Justinian reigned over sixty-four provinces, and nine hundred and thirty-five.
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... military but material. It was to be found in the production and distribution of goods. And when eighteenth-century writers reviled and despised Byzantium and its culture, they were therefore in some sense reviling themselves. It is ...
... military but material. It was to be found in the production and distribution of goods. And when eighteenth-century writers reviled and despised Byzantium and its culture, they were therefore in some sense reviling themselves. It is ...
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... military fame of a subject was considered as an insolent invasion of the Imperial prerogative; and it became the duty, as well as interest, of every Roman general, to guard the frontiers intrusted to his care, without aspiring to ...
... military fame of a subject was considered as an insolent invasion of the Imperial prerogative; and it became the duty, as well as interest, of every Roman general, to guard the frontiers intrusted to his care, without aspiring to ...
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... military stations, which was afterwards fortified in the reign of Antoninus Pius, by a turf rampart erected on foundations of stone.10 This wall of Antoninus, at a small distance beyond the modern cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, was ...
... military stations, which was afterwards fortified in the reign of Antoninus Pius, by a turf rampart erected on foundations of stone.10 This wall of Antoninus, at a small distance beyond the modern cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, was ...
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CHAPTERS VIIIXIV | |
CHAPTER XV | |
CHAPTERS XVIXXI | |
CHAPTER XXII | |
CHAPTER XXIII | |
CHAPTER XXIV | |
CHAPTERS XXVXXVII | |
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1 Edward Gibbon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1914 |
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