Part of: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 12 vols. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 12
- Edward Gibbon (author)
- John Bagnell Bury (editor)
The twelth and final 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.
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…every reader(’s) … attention will be excited by an History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: the greatest, perhaps, and most awful scene in the history of mankind. The various causes and progressive effects are connected with many of the events most interesting in human annals: the…