History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireSimon and Schuster, 18. jan. 2013 - 433 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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... Christian hermits and Pagan magicians. While the East was afflicted by the passions of Verina, her daughter Ariadne was distinguished by the female virtues of mildness and fidelity; she followed her husband in his exile, and after his ...
... Christian hermits and Pagan magicians. While the East was afflicted by the passions of Verina, her daughter Ariadne was distinguished by the female virtues of mildness and fidelity; she followed her husband in his exile, and after his ...
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... Christian world, was painful and offensive to the orthodox zeal of the Italians. They respected the armed heresy of the Goths; but their pious rage was safely pointed against the rich and defenceless Jews, who had formed their ...
... Christian world, was painful and offensive to the orthodox zeal of the Italians. They respected the armed heresy of the Goths; but their pious rage was safely pointed against the rich and defenceless Jews, who had formed their ...
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... Christian mysteries. After the fall of his rival, he was promoted, without any claim of military service, to the office of mastergeneral of the Eastern armies, whom it was his duty to lead into the field against the public enemy. But ...
... Christian mysteries. After the fall of his rival, he was promoted, without any claim of military service, to the office of mastergeneral of the Eastern armies, whom it was his duty to lead into the field against the public enemy. But ...
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... Christian æra with cities and men, mulberrytrees and their precious inhabitants; and if the Chinese, with the knowledge of the compass, had possessed the genius of the Greeks or Phnicians, they might have spread their discoveries over ...
... Christian æra with cities and men, mulberrytrees and their precious inhabitants; and if the Chinese, with the knowledge of the compass, had possessed the genius of the Greeks or Phnicians, they might have spread their discoveries over ...
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... Christian allies, the Æthiopians of Abyssinia, who had recently acquired the arts of navigation, the spirit of trade ... Christians of St. Thomas on the peppercoast of Malabar; a church was planted in Ceylon, and the missionaries pursued ...
... Christian allies, the Æthiopians of Abyssinia, who had recently acquired the arts of navigation, the spirit of trade ... Christians of St. Thomas on the peppercoast of Malabar; a church was planted in Ceylon, and the missionaries pursued ...
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State Of The Barbaric World | |
Last Victory And Death Of Belisarius Death Of Justinian | |
Idea Of The Roman Jurisprudence | |
State Of Italy Under The Lombards | |
Troubles In Persia | |
Ecclesiastical Discord | |
Succession And Characters Of The Greek Emperors | |
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