The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireStrelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing, 6. nov. 2018 This huge and fundamental historical work covers the history of Western civilization from the beginning of the Roman Empire’s break, when the Nerva–Antonine dynasty came to power, till the end of the 16th century with the descriptions of Arab and Mongol conquests, so a period from 98 to 1590. The work contained six volumes. Volume I was published in 1776, volumes II and III were published in 1781, volumes IV, V, and VI in 1788–1789. Due to its comparative objectivity and extensive usage of primary sources, unusual for the time, the author’s methodology is considered to become an example for further historians, and Gibbon, thanks to this work, is called the first “contemporary historian of Ancient Rome”. |
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... formed from one chapter by those of another. Yet, on the other hand, it is astonishing how rarely we detect ... forming a fairer judgment; and if he is not exempt from his own prejudices, perhaps we might write passions, yet it must be ...
... formed any exception to the general system of continental measures. After a war of about forty years, undertaken by the most stupid,[13] maintained by the most dissolute, and terminated by the most timid of all the emperors, the far ...
... formed on very different principles. The strength of the phalanx depended on sixteen ranks of long pikes, wedged together in the closest array[54] but it was soon discovered by reflection, as well as by the event, that the strength of ...
... formed the first line, and were seconded or sustained by the strength of the legions; the cavalry covered the flanks, and the military engines were placed in the rear. Such were the arts of war, by which the Roman emperors defended ...
... formed after the perfect model of the capital,[129] were intrusted, under the immediate eye of the supreme power, with the execution of the laws. From the foot of the Alps to the extremity of Calabria, all the natives of Italy were born ...