History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireSimon and Schuster, 18. jan. 2013 - 398 sider Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th centuries. |
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... successful act of temporal jurisdiction. II. In the change of manners and language the patricians of Rome were far removed from the senate of Romulus, on the palace of Constantine, from the free nobles of the republic, or the fictitious ...
... successful act of temporal jurisdiction. II. In the change of manners and language the patricians of Rome were far removed from the senate of Romulus, on the palace of Constantine, from the free nobles of the republic, or the fictitious ...
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... and she refused her adversaries the toleration which at first she had granted to her friends. During the five succeeding reigns, a period of thirtyeight years, the contest was maintained, with unabated rage and various success, between.
... and she refused her adversaries the toleration which at first she had granted to her friends. During the five succeeding reigns, a period of thirtyeight years, the contest was maintained, with unabated rage and various success, between.
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Edward Gibbon. contest was maintained, with unabated rage and various success, between the worshippers and the breakers of the images; but I am not inclined to pursue with minute diligence the repetition of the same events. Nicephorus ...
Edward Gibbon. contest was maintained, with unabated rage and various success, between the worshippers and the breakers of the images; but I am not inclined to pursue with minute diligence the repetition of the same events. Nicephorus ...
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... success; and he might behold, with envy, the Saracen trophies of his grandfather. After the Spanish expedition, his rearguard was defeated in the Pyrenæan mountains; and the soldiers, whose situation was irretrievable, and whose valor ...
... success; and he might behold, with envy, the Saracen trophies of his grandfather. After the Spanish expedition, his rearguard was defeated in the Pyrenæan mountains; and the soldiers, whose situation was irretrievable, and whose valor ...
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... success, has been vigorously resisted by the secular power, and finally extinguished by the improvement of human reason. In the revival of the empire of empire of Rome, neither the bishop nor the people could bestow on Charlemagne or ...
... success, has been vigorously resisted by the secular power, and finally extinguished by the improvement of human reason. In the revival of the empire of empire of Rome, neither the bishop nor the people could bestow on Charlemagne or ...
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