The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (PDF)

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The first volume of Decline and Fall was published in 1776, and by the time the final volume appeared in 1787, Gibbon had produced an exhaustive, million-and-a-half-word account of a ‘revolution which shall ever be remembered and is still felt by the nations of the earth’.This panoramic work, covering 13 centuries from 180 A.D. to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, has been described as ‘a bridge that carries one from the ancient world to the modern’.Here, this masterpiece of the Enlightenment has been cut down to a manageable size, but still covers in detail the tyranny, cowardice and decadence that led to the fall of Rome. Gibbon described history as ‘little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind’, and this book serves as a dazzling, perceptive guide to every civilization before and since.

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⭐Book came as described

⭐Great insight into the few but intertwined reasons the mighty empire crumbled under its own weight.The impact of Christianity was surprising. – Ace Hannah

⭐If I had realized gibbons’s decline in fall was about more than Romans I would have read this book a long time ago. Reading it on Kindle is extremely handy. There is no need to have to have other books alongside you to look up things. Pressing on the word comes up with a definition or the meaning of terms that are ancient and strange.One learns an awful lot about the ancient civilizations in Germany and beast. It is not just about the Roman victories. There is a lot of detail about the people’s who live in all of those areas. One begins to wonder who is the barbarian a lot of times when you see the cruelty dished out by the Romans and the all parties.

⭐I listened to the Audible version narrated by Charlton Griffin while following along on the ebook version. This represents about 2 months of nearly obsessive labor, plodding on through a morass of names and characters as the landscape grows increasingly dark and malevolent. The happiest chapters are the first two and there is a steady degeneration of the character and accomplishments of the Romans and their surrogates over the next 12 centuries. The final chapters are devoted to the misbehavior and vices of the residents of Rome in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance period—the banal mischief wrought by these unworthy denizens makes Gibbons’ point that the Roman Empire and Polity died from the inside more than from external invasions, plagues, and the sanguinary disputes of the Christian religious (Gibbons’ point of view). On the way to churning through this grim tale, I found myself appreciating the lapidary prose of the author and enjoying the way his sentences function as perfectly balanced statements of fact and intent. His diversions into custom, culture, economics, and the law actually proved more diverting than the tedious recitation of one psychotic and ineffectual monarch after another. If you want to understand how Churchill spoke and wrote, a grasp of Gibbons gives a good starting point. I believe everyone who aspires to an education about the history of the European and Middle Eastern world from the mid Second Century CE to the early Sixteenth Century needs to consider reading fully the unabridged version of this classic. It just happens to be very hard to finish, but well worth the effort if you succeed.

⭐Having heard about this work for many years, decided to find out what all the fuss was about. I have to say this is not a ” trivial ” read. It was however for me, a detailed exploration of a history of Western civilization , from it’s roots. One could spend a lifetime searching out and exploring all the events, people and major changes encompassed in these three volumes. For me, it was a journey well worth the time and effort.

⭐If anyone were searching for a complete and unabridged edition of Gibbon in one vokume, your search is over. It’s not anything fancy (just the text and the footnotes, no modern academic essays). Margins are wide considering the book’s length and there’s space at the bottom of the page and ends of chapters. Font is small, but easily readable without my glasses. You could put sticky notes without covering part of the text. The footnotes (Gibbon’s own and the editors’) take up a good portion of the work (8374 to be exact) but are about the same font size as the main text. They’re also on the same pages so no endless flipping back and forth. Would be a handy reference book, in which case the only flipping you would have to do would be between the table of contents and the desired chapter.

⭐This edition offers an unabridged original text, with modified footnotes. It avoids the ‘interpaginated’ footnotes of other editions that I find distracting…footnotes are moved to the end of each chapter, allowing an unbroken reading experience. The footnotes themselves have been ‘abridged’, but in a way that I think is useful for the modern reader…Latin/Greek/French footnotes have been removed, along with footnotes that simply cite the source without other commentary. I think this is the right balance.

⭐Want to know what really happened to the Roman Empire. It just wasn’t the Barbarians but from inside the Roman Empire itself. Those within the Roman Empire caused its decline and fall. Must read.

⭐Poor quality formatting of this editiondestroys confidence from the start.Have gone for another edition.

⭐Unsurpassed.

⭐Great book but it isn’t the complete 6 volumes.

⭐As described

⭐The best of the edited versions of the 1776 classic study.

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