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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6

Edward Gibbon · Henry Hart Milman

FormatEbook
Published2008
Words2,38,622
LanguageEnglish
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The concluding volume of Gibbon's monumental work, tracing the final centuries of the Byzantine Empire through to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, with editorial notes by Henry Hart Milman. Suited to students of Roman and Byzantine history and readers interested in classic works of historical scholarship.
Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon was a British essayist, historian and politician. His most important and influential work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, to critical and commercial success. It is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organised religion.

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