The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 8

The eighth 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. 8.
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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 EIGHTH VOLUME
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
- CHAPTER XLV
- CHAPTER XLVI
- CHAPTER XLVII
- CHAPTER XLVIII
- CHAPTER XLIX
- APPENDIX ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE EDITOR
- 1.: AUTHORITIES — (Ch. XLV. sqq. and Vol. IX. Ch. L. sqq.)
- Greek (and Other) Sources
- Latin Sources
- Oriental Sources
- I.: For the Life of Mohammad
- II.: For the Saracen Conquests
- 2.: THE AVAR CONQUEST — (P. 9)
- 3.: GEOGRAPHY OF ITALY IN THE LOMBARD PERIOD, AND CHRONOLOGY OF THE LOMBARD CONQUEST — (P. 14)
- 4.: THE ARMENIAC PROVINCES OF JUSTINIAN AND MAURICE — (P. 66)
- 5.: THE RACE OF HERACLIUS AND NICETAS — (P. 85, 86)
- 6.: PERSIAN KINGS FROM CHOSROES I. TO YEZDEGERD III. — (P. 11)
- 7.: THE INSCRIPTION OF SI-NGAN-FU — (P. 190)
- 8.: THE LETTER OF NICETIUS TO JUSTINIAN — (P. 177)
- 9.: PERIODS OF THE LATER EMPIRE, ad 610 TO ad 1204 — (Ch. XLVIII.)
- 10.: A CHRONOLOGICAL QUESTION OF THE EIGHTH CENTURY — (P. 234, 236)
- 11.: GRÆCO-ROMAN LAW — (P. 261)
- 12.: THE LAND QUESTION — (P. 265)
- 13.: INTEREST, CREDIT, AND COMMERCE — (THE RHODIAN CODE)
- 14.: THE LETTERS OF GREGORY II. TO THE EMPEROR LEO — (P. 326)
- 15.: THE ICONOCLASTIC EDICTS OF LEO III. — (P. 319, 320)
- 16.: SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE RISE OF THE PAPAL POWER IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY — (P. 337, 338, 342, 343, c.)
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