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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... immediately rejected as unequal to the burden; and among these was Laodicea, whose splendor is still displayed in its ruins[194] laodicea collected a very considerable revenue from its flocks of sheep, celebrated for the fineness of ...
... immediately, by a decree of the senate, declared him his colleague and successor in the empire[274] whilst we are fatigued with the disgustful relation of Nero's crimes and follies, it is sincerely to be lamented, that we are reduced to ...
... immediately revealed the authors of the conspiracy. It had been formed, not in the state, but within the walls of the palace. Lucilla, the emperor's sister, and widow of Lucius Verus, impatient of the second rank, and jealous of the ...
... immediately saluted Severus with the names of Augustus, Pertinax, and Emperor; and he thus attained the lofty station to which he was invited, by conscious merit and a long train of dreams and omens, the fruitful offsprings either of ...
... immediately no communication was allowed divided the vast extent of the imperial palace[460] between their apartments; the doors and passages were diligently fortified, and guards posted and relieved with the same strictness as in a ...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1 Edward Gibbon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1827 |