History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireSimon and Schuster, 18. jan. 2013 - 398 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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... prince in whose favor the title has been indissolubly blended with the name. That name, with the addition of saint, is ... princes of Aquitain, and the four thousand five hundred Saxons who were beheaded on the same spot, would have ...
... prince in whose favor the title has been indissolubly blended with the name. That name, with the addition of saint, is ... princes of Aquitain, and the four thousand five hundred Saxons who were beheaded on the same spot, would have ...
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... prince, who reigned at the same time in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Hungary. I. The Roman province of Gaul had ... princes were the last and lawful heirs of the blood and sceptre of Clovis, and younger branch, from the brother of ...
... prince, who reigned at the same time in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Hungary. I. The Roman province of Gaul had ... princes were the last and lawful heirs of the blood and sceptre of Clovis, and younger branch, from the brother of ...
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... princes of Saxon or Scottish origin: and, after the loss of Spain, the Christian and Gothic kingdom of Alphonso the Chaste was confined to the narrow range of the Asturian mountains. These petty sovereigns revered the power or virtue of ...
... princes of Saxon or Scottish origin: and, after the loss of Spain, the Christian and Gothic kingdom of Alphonso the Chaste was confined to the narrow range of the Asturian mountains. These petty sovereigns revered the power or virtue of ...
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... princes, who were already invested with their power and dominions. The pious Lewis survived his brothers, and embraced the whole empire of Charlemagne; but the nations and the nobles, his bishops and his children, quickly discerned that ...
... princes, who were already invested with their power and dominions. The pious Lewis survived his brothers, and embraced the whole empire of Charlemagne; but the nations and the nobles, his bishops and his children, quickly discerned that ...
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Edward Gibbon. princess, who had renounced the most sacred duties of a mother. The nature, the duration, the probable ... princes. His reply is expressive of his weakness: he proves, with some learning, that, both in sacred and profane ...
Edward Gibbon. princess, who had renounced the most sacred duties of a mother. The nature, the duration, the probable ... princes. His reply is expressive of his weakness: he proves, with some learning, that, both in sacred and profane ...
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