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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... king, who might have deserved a statue among the best and bravest of the ancient Romans. Theodoric the Ostrogoth, the fourteenth in lineal descent of the royal line of the Amali, was born in the neighborhood of Vienna two years after ...
... king, who might have deserved a statue among the best and bravest of the ancient Romans. Theodoric the Ostrogoth, the fourteenth in lineal descent of the royal line of the Amali, was born in the neighborhood of Vienna two years after ...
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... king whom he had vanquished and slain. Such triumphs, however, were productive only of fame, and the invincible ... kings, must have despised the base Isaurian who was invested with the Roman purple, without any endowment of mind or body ...
... king whom he had vanquished and slain. Such triumphs, however, were productive only of fame, and the invincible ... kings, must have despised the base Isaurian who was invested with the Roman purple, without any endowment of mind or body ...
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... king of the Ostrogoths; the rank of patrician and consul, the command of the Palatine troops, an equestrian statue, a treasure in gold and silver of many thousand pounds, the name of son, and the promise of a rich and honorable wife. As ...
... king of the Ostrogoths; the rank of patrician and consul, the command of the Palatine troops, an equestrian statue, a treasure in gold and silver of many thousand pounds, the name of son, and the promise of a rich and honorable wife. As ...
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... kings or leaders disdained the duties of subordination and the prudence of delays. No sooner had Theodoric gained a ... king. Immediately before the battle of Verona, he visited the tent of his mother and sister, and requested, that on ...
... kings or leaders disdained the duties of subordination and the prudence of delays. No sooner had Theodoric gained a ... king. Immediately before the battle of Verona, he visited the tent of his mother and sister, and requested, that on ...
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... kings of the Franks, the Burgundians, the Visigoths, the Vandals, and the Thuringians, and contributed to maintain the ... king of these savage warriors solicited the friendship of Theodoric, and was elevated to the rank of his son ...
... kings of the Franks, the Burgundians, the Visigoths, the Vandals, and the Thuringians, and contributed to maintain the ... king of these savage warriors solicited the friendship of Theodoric, and was elevated to the rank of his son ...
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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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