The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 2

The second volume of a 12 volume set of Gibbon’s magesterial 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. 2.
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- Author: Edward Gibbon
- 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 SECOND VOLUME
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- APPENDIX ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE EDITOR
- 1.: THE ORIGIN OF THE GOTHS; AND THE GOTHIC HISTORY OF JORDANES — (P. 4 sqq.)
- 2.: VISIGOTHS AND OSTROGOTHS — (P. 8)
- 3.: THE DEFEAT OF VALERIAN, AND THE DATE OF CYRIADES — (P. 43)
- 4.: THE PRETENDERS IN THE REIGN OF GALLIENUS, KNOWN AS THE THIRTY TYRANTS — (P. 49)
- 5.: ZENOBIA — (P. 83 sqq.)
- 6.: CORRECTOR ITALIÆ — (P. 96)
- 7.: PROBUS AND THE LIMES GERMANICUS — (P. 120)
- 8.: GERMAN CAMPAIGNS OF DIOCLETIAN, MAXIMIAN, AND CONSTANTIUS (ad 285-299) — (P. 158 sqq.)
- 9.: DIOCLETIAN’S TARIFF OF MAXIMUM PRICES — (P. 178)
- 10.: AUTHORITIES FOR MATTERS PERTAINING TO CHRISTIANITY AND THE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS — (Chap. XV.)
- 11.: ORIGIN OF GNOSTICISM — (P. 274)
- 12.: WORLD-ERAS — (P. 289)
- 13.: EARLY CHURCH INSTITUTIONS — (P. 311)
- 14.: NUMBER OF CHRISTIANS IN THE EMPIRE UNDER DIOCLETIAN AND CONSTANTINE — (Pp. 337, 341)
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