History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon

History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire

By Edward Gibbon

  • Release Date: 2015-03-19
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature

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The work covers the history of the Roman Empire, Europe, and the Catholic Church from 98 to 1590 and discusses the decline of the Roman Empire in the East and West. 

Because of its relative objectivity and heavy use of primary sources, unusual at the time, its methodology became a model for later historians. This led to Gibbon being called the first "modern historian of ancient Rome

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