Bibliograph

The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 4

Type

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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 4

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Summary

Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th centuries

Target audience

adult

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