History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireGibbon 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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... enjoyed, besides the privilege of rapine, an annual pension of five thousand
pounds. The sagacious mind of Theodoric soon perceived that he was odious to
the Romans, and suspected by the Barbarians: he understood the popular
murmur ...
... enjoyed, besides the privilege of rapine, an annual pension of five thousand
pounds. The sagacious mind of Theodoric soon perceived that he was odious to
the Romans, and suspected by the Barbarians: he understood the popular
murmur ...
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And the subordinate care of justice and the revenue was delegated to seven
consulars, three correctors, and five presidents, who governed the fifteen regions
of Italy according to the principles, and even the forms, of Roman jurisprudence.
And the subordinate care of justice and the revenue was delegated to seven
consulars, three correctors, and five presidents, who governed the fifteen regions
of Italy according to the principles, and even the forms, of Roman jurisprudence.
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... of wheat at about five shillings and sixpence. A country possessed of so many
valuable objects of exchange soon attracted the merchants of the world, whose
beneficial traffic was encouraged and protected by the liberal spirit of Theodoric.
... of wheat at about five shillings and sixpence. A country possessed of so many
valuable objects of exchange soon attracted the merchants of the world, whose
beneficial traffic was encouraged and protected by the liberal spirit of Theodoric.
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Yet his innocence must be presumed, since he was deprived by Theodoric of the
means of justification, and rigorously confined in the tower of Pavia, while the
senate, at the distance of five hundred miles, pronounced a sentence of ...
Yet his innocence must be presumed, since he was deprived by Theodoric of the
means of justification, and rigorously confined in the tower of Pavia, while the
senate, at the distance of five hundred miles, pronounced a sentence of ...
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The eight books of the Persian, Vandalic, and Gothic wars, which are continued
in the five books of Agathias, deserve our esteem as a laborious and successful
imitation of the Attic, or at least of the Asiatic, writers of ancient Greece. His facts ...
The eight books of the Persian, Vandalic, and Gothic wars, which are continued
in the five books of Agathias, deserve our esteem as a laborious and successful
imitation of the Attic, or at least of the Asiatic, writers of ancient Greece. His facts ...
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Troubles In Persia | |
Ecclesiastical Discord | |
Succession And Characters Of The Greek Emperors | |
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Bibliografisk informasjon
| Tittel | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| Forfatter | Edward Gibbon |
| Utgiver | Simon and Schuster, 2013 |
| ISBN | 1625584180, 9781625584182 |
| Lengde | 433 sider |
| Eksporter sitat | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |