The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 5

The fifth 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. 5.
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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 FIFTH VOLUME
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
- CHAPTER XXVII
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- CHAPTER XXIX
- CHAPTER XXX
- CHAPTER XXXI
- CHAPTER XXXII
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- APPENDIX ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE EDITOR
- 1.: THEOLOGY IN THE MARKET-PLACES OF CONSTANTINOPLE — (P. 13)
- 2.: DID THEODOSIUS VISIT ROME IN ad 394? — (P. 66)
- 3.: THE LIBRARIES OF ALEXANDRIA — (P. 85, 87)1
- 4.: WORSHIP OF RELICS — (P. 98, 99)
- 5.: STILICHO IN INSCRIPTIONS — (P. 119, 134, 159)
- 6.: THE TWO EASTERN EXPEDITIONS OF STILICHO AND HIS ILLYRIC POLICY — (P. 122, 144)
- 7.: ALARIC IN GREECE — (P. 140-143)
- 8.: PENETRABIS AD URBEM — (P. 148)
- 9.: ALARIC’S FIRST INVASION OF ITALY — (P. 148, 151 sqq.)
- 10.: RADAGAISUS — (P. 167)
- 11.: THE SECOND CARAUSIUS — (P. 178)
- 12.: THE TYRANT CONSTANTINE — (P. 178)
- 13.: “THE STATUE OF A POET FAR SUPERIOR TO CLAUDIAN” — (P. 191)
- 14.: DEATH OF MAXIMUS — (P. 266)
- 15.: SEPTIMANIA — (P. 286)
- 16.: RATE OF TRAVELLING BY SEA — (P. 289)
- 17.: ARMENIAN AFFAIRS — (P. 331, 333)
- 18.: PROCOPIAN LEGENDS — (P. 354, and vol. vi. p. 80)
- 19.: THE “EGYPTIAN” OF SYNESIUS — (P. 304)
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