The decline and fall of the Roman Empire

Author(s)

• Gibbon, Edward
• Saunders, Dero A.
• Robinson, Charles Alexande, Jr

Bibliographic Information

The decline and fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon ; an abridged version edited and with an introduction by Dero A. Saunders ; preface by Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr.

（Penguin English library）

Penguin, 1981, c1952

Other Title

Portable Gibbon

Note

"First published in the United States of America under title The Portable Gibbon by The Viking Press, 1952"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is an abridged edition of Gibbon's classic. Concentrating on the centuries from the age of the Antonines to the fall of the empire in the West, this volume chronicles "the triumph of barbarism and religion" in the disruption of the unified empire, the rise of Christianity, the progress of the Huns from China and the revolt of the Goths.

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Details

• NCID: BB03863004
• ISBN:
  • 0140431896
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth
• Pages/Volumes: x, 691 p., [2] leaves of plates
• Size: 18 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DG311
  • DC19 : 937/.06
• Subject Headings:
  • FREE : Ancient Rome, 138-476
  • LCSH : Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
  • LCSH : Byzantine Empire -- History
  • FREE : Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00304654