Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5

Herausgeber: Bury, J. B.

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Produktbeschreibung

J. B. Bury's authoritative seven-volume edition (1896-1900) of Edward Gibbon's magisterial account of the relationship between Roman imperialism and Christianity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 564
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 786g
• ISBN-13: 9781108050753
• ISBN-10: 1108050751
• Artikelnr.: 37458737

Autorenporträt

Edward Gibbon was a member of the English parliament, a historian, and a writer. On May 8, 1737, he was born, and on January 16, 1794, he died. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, came out in six parts between 1776 and 1788. It is known for the quality and irony of its prose, the way it uses first-hand sources, and the way it criticizes organized religion in a polemical way. After getting sick in 1752, Gibbon went to Bath to get better. When he was 15, his father sent him to Oxford to study as a gentleman commoner at Magdalen College. But he didn't fit in well at college, and he later said that the 14 months he spent there were the "most useless and unprofitable" of his life. He lived in Lausanne for five years and read works by Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, John Locke, Pierre Bayle, and Blaise Pascal. He also traveled around Switzerland to study the constitutions of its cantons.

Inhaltsangabe

45. Reign of the younger Justin
46. Revolutions of Persia
47. Theological history of the doctrine of the incarnation
48. Plan of the last four volumes
49. Introduction, worship and persecution of images
50. Description of Arabia and its inhabitants
51. The conquest of Persia, Syria, Egypt, Africa, and Spain by the Arabs or Saracens.