The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged EditionEdited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin Illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, is widely considered the greatest work of history ever written. This abridgment retains the full scope of the original, but in a breadth comparable to a novel. Casual readers now have access to the full sweep of Gibbon’s narrative, while instructors and students have a volume that can be read in a single term. This unique edition emphasizes elements ignored in all other abridgments—in particular the role of religion in the empire and the rise of Islam. |
Contents
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OF MACRINUS | 83 |
TYRANNY OF MAXIMIN REBELLION Civil WARs | 104 |
EMPERORS DECIUS GALLUS AEMILIANUS WALERIAN | 143 |
REIGN OF CLAUDIUS DEFEAT OF THE GOTHS | 164 |
REIGNS OF TACITUS PROBUS CARUS AND HIS SONS | 179 |
REIGN of DiocleTIAN AND HIS THREE ASSOCIATES | 195 |
CoNQUESTs of JUSTINIAN CHARACTER of BELISARIUS | 725 |
STATE of THE BARBARIC World | 736 |
LAST Victory AND DEATH of BELISARIUs DEATH of JUSTINIAN | 747 |
IDEA or THE Roman JurisPRUDENCE | 762 |
STATE of ITALY UNDER THE LOMBARDS | 788 |
TROUBLES IN PERSIA | 800 |
ECCLESIASTICAL DISCORD | 815 |
VOLUME THE FIFTH | 853 |
Six EMPERORS AT THE SAME TIME REUNION of THE EMPIRE | 213 |
PROGRESS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION | 237 |
CoNDUCT TowARDS THE CHRISTIANS FROM NERo To CoNSTANTINE | 276 |
VOLUME THE SECOND | 315 |
Found ATION OF CONSTANTINOPLE 18 CHARACTER OF CONSTANTINE AND HIS SONS | 344 |
CoSSTANTIUS SoLE EMPEROR | 359 |
Cox VERSION OF CONSTANTINE 21 PERSECUTION of HERESY STATE or THE CHURCH 22 JULIAN DECLARED EMPEROR | 425 |
REIGN of JULIAN | 436 |
THE RETREAT AND DEATH of JULIAN | 454 |
REIGNS of Jovi AN AND WALENTINIAN Division of THE EMPIRE | 466 |
PROGRESS OF THE HUNS | 490 |
VOLUME THE THIRD | 505 |
CIVIL WARS REIGN OF THEODOSIUS | 509 |
DESTRUCTION OF PAGANISM | 522 |
DIVISION OF ROMAN EMPIRE BETWEEN SONS OF THEODOSIUS | 540 |
REVOLT of THE GOTHS | 546 |
INvAsio N of ITALY Occupation of TERRITORIES BY BARBARIANS | 563 |
EMPERoRS ARCADIUS EUTRoPIUS THEoDosius II | 578 |
CoNQUEST of AFRICA BY THE VANDALS | 594 |
ATTILA | 604 |
INVASION BY AT TILA | 610 |
TOTAL Extinction of THE WESTERN EMPIRE | 620 |
Conversion of THE BARBARIANS TO CHRISTIANITY | 643 |
REIGN of CLovis | 659 |
VOLUME THE FOURTH | 685 |
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH VoI U ME OF THE ORIGINAL QUARTo EDITION | 687 |
GoTHIC KINGDoyſ of ITALY | 691 |
REIGN of JUSTINIAN | 699 |
SUCCESSION AND CHARACTERS of THE GREEK EMPERORS 85 5 | 855 |
CoNQUEST of ITALY BY THE FRANKS | 869 |
DESCRIPTION OF ARABIA AND ITS INHABITANTS 89 3 | 893 |
CONQUESTS BY THE ARABS | 944 |
MoRE CONQUESTS BY THE ARABS 96 1 | 961 |
FATE OF THE EASTERN EMPIRE | 982 |
54 ORIGIN AND DOCTRINE of THE PAULICIANS | 1003 |
THE BUL GARIANs THE HUNGARIANs AND THE RUSSIANs | 1012 |
THE SARACENS THE FRANKS AND THE Nor MANs | 1020 |
The TURKS | 1029 |
THE FIRST CRUSADE 104 7 | 1057 |
THE CRUSADES | 1075 |
THE FOURTH CRUSADE | 1094 |
PARTITION OF THE EMPIRE BY THE FRENCH AND VENETIANS | 1104 |
GREEK EMPERORS of NICE AND CONSTANTINoPLE | 1108 |
Civil WARS AND THE RUIN OF THE GREEK EMPIRE | 1123 |
Moguls OTTOMAN TURKs | 1136 |
TIMOUR OR TAMERLANE | 1153 |
UNION OF THE GREEK AND LATIN CHURCHES | 1169 |
SCHISM OF THE GREEKS AND LATINS | 1187 |
REIGN of MoHAMMED THE SEcoRND Extinction of EASTERN EMPIRE | 1197 |
STATE of Rome FROM THE Twelfth CENTURY | 1219 |
FINAL SETTLEMENT of THE ECCLESIASTICAL STATE | 1232 |
PROSPECT OF THE RUINS OF ROME IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY | 1243 |
TABLE OF ROMAN EMPERORS | 1253 |
A NOTE ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS | 1259 |
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