Introduction Rosamond McKitterick and Roland Quinault
1. Gibbon and the later Roman Empire: causes and circumstances John Matthews
2. Gibbon and Justinian Averil Cameron
3. Gibbon and the middle period of the Byzantine Empire James Howard-Johnson
4. Byzantine soldiers, missionaries and diplomacy under Gibbon's eyes Jonathan Shepard
5. Gibbon and the later Byzantine empires Anthony Bryer
6. Gibbon and the Merovingians Ian Wood
7. Gibbon, Hodgkin, and the invaders of Italy T. S. Brown
8. Gibbon and the early Middle Ages in eighteenth-century Europe Rosamond McKitterick
9. Gibbon and the 'watchmen of the Holy City': religion and revision in The Decline and Fall David Womersley
10. Gibbon and international relations Jeremy Black
11. Gibbon's Roman Empire as a universal monarchy John Robertson
12. The conception of Gibbon's History Peter Ghosh
13. Winston Churchill and Gibbon Roland Quinault
Epilogue J. W. Burrow, Rosamond McKitterick and Roland Quinault.