The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 1
The first volume of a 12 volume set of Gibbon’s magisterial history of the end of the Roman Empire, one of the greatest works of history written during the Enlightenment.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J.B. Bury with an Introduction by W.E.H. Lecky (New York: Fred de Fau and Co., 1906), in 12 vols. Vol. 1.
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- Author: Edward Gibbon
- Introduction: William Edward Hartpole Lecky
- Editor: John Bagnell Bury
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- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 12 vols. (William Edward Hartpole Lecky)
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Table of Contents
- THE WORKS OF EDWARD GIBBON
- CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION1
- PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR
- ADVERTISEMENT TO THE NOTES1
- ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST OCTAVO EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE FOURTH VOLUME OF THE QUARTO EDITION
- INTRODUCTION
- THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- APPENDIX ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE EDITOR
- 1.: AUTHORITIES
- 2.: CONQUEST OF BRITAIN — (P. 4 and P. 45)
- 3.: THE CONQUESTS OF TRAJAN, AND POLICY OF HADRIAN — (P. 7)
- 4.: THE ROMAN ARMY — (P. 15)
- 5.: THE ROMAN NAVY — (P. 23)
- 6.: THE PROVINCES OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN 180 ad — (P. 24)
- 7.: CHANGES IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE SINCE GIBBON WROTE — (Pp. 28, 29)
- 8.: COLONIES AND MUNICIPIA, IUS LATINUM — (P. 46)
- 9.: THE MINE OF SOUMELPOUR — (P. 69)
- 10.: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE — (Chapter III.)
- 11.: THE CONSTITUTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PRINCIPATE OF SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS — (Pp. 154-161)
- 12.: CHRONOLOGY OF 238 ad — (P. 229)
- 13.: AUTHORITIES FOR ORIENTAL AFFAIRS — (Chapter VIII.)
- 14.: THE ZEND AVESTA — (P. 253 sqq.)
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