Edward Gibbon

22 Bücher

Verfall und Untergang des Römischen Reiches: Ausgabe in neuer Übersetzung und Rechtschreibung

Verfall und Untergang des römischen Imperiums

Verfall und Untergang des Römischen Reiches. 1. Band

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Verfall und Untergang des römischen Reiches

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 3

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5

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

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4

The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1

Über Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon (1737.1794), the architect of modern historical writing, revolutionized Enlightenment scholarship with The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Born into Englands landed gentry, his fragile health and voracious reading habits forged an insatiable intellect that flourished at Oxford and Lausanne. Gibbons masterwork, spanning six volumes and 1,300 years of history, established forensic analysis of primary sources as the gold standard for historians. His secular interpretation of Romes collapse and candid treatment of Christianitys political role ignited controversies that still resonate in religious studies. Though Memoirs remained unfinished at his death, the fragments reveal a polymath equally adept at dissecting parliamentary politics as Byzantine theology, whose personal vulnerabilities unrequited love, familial tensions shaped his relentless pursuit of historical truth.