![]() ![]() In this violent process of collapse, some. ![]() ![]() A landmark in its time for classical and historiographical scholarship, its fame today, however, rests more on the scope and force of Gibbon’s argument and the brilliance of his style. Scanned by the Boston Library Consortium/Open Content Alliance as part of the BLC OCA Digitization Project from a copy at the Tisch Library, Tufts University. A young barbarian king named Odoacer forces the last Roman emperor in the West, Romulus Augustus, to abdicate the. Edward Gibbon’s account of Roman decline remains a remarkably fresh and vital contribution to the subject more than two centuries after its first publication. Medford, MA : Tisch Library, Tufts University, 2015. Beginning in the second century at the apex of the Pax Romana, Gibbon traces the arc of decline and complete destruction through the centuries across Europe and. 2 published in 1844.Įlectronic reproduction. The preface, notes and corrections, translated from the French expressly for this edition with a notice of the life and character of Gibbon, and Watson's reply to Gibbon.ġ online resource (2. A new edition, revised and corrected throughout /preceded by a preface, and accompanied by notes, critical and historical, relating principally to the propagation of Christianity: by M. ![]()
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