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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... frequently submitted their differences to the arbitration of the emperor; and we are informed by a contemporary historian that he had seen ambassadors who were refused the honor which they came to solicit of being admitted into the rank ...
... frequently hesitated to what portion of the globe they should ascribe Egypt[92] by its situation that celebrated kingdom is included within the immense peninsula of Africa; but it is accessible only on the side of Asia, whose ...
... frequently despoiled the vanquished nations of the elegant statues of their gods, and the rich ornaments of their temples;[110] but, in the exercise of the religion which they derived from their ancestors, they uniformly experienced the ...
... frequently carried vessels in seven useful monument of Roman greatness[205] days to the columns of Hercules, and in nine or ten, to Alexandria in Egypt.[206] [207] Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive ...
... frequently aspired to the title of that annual dignity, which they condescended to share with the most illustrious of their fellowin the election of these magistrates, the people, during the reign of citizens[248] Augustus, were ...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 2 Edward Gibbon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1840 |