Description
| Product ID: | 9781853264993 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Classics of World Literature |
| Title: | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| Authors: | Author: Edward Gibbon, Tom Griffith |
| Page Count: | 1088 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, Ancient history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Rome, BCE to c 500 CE, c 500 CE to c 1000 CE, c 1000 CE to c 1500 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Published between 1776 and 1788, this text is acknowledged as a masterpiece of English historical writing. Covering the history of Europe from the 2nd-century AD, to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, this edition includes footnotes, explanatory comments, and a precis of the chapters not included. Gibbon''s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in full in this edition.With style, learning and wit, Gibbon takes the reader through the history of Europe from the second century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 - an enthralling account by ''the greatest of the historians of the Enlightenment''. This edition includes Gibbon''s footnotes and quotations, here translated for the first time, together with brief explanatory comments, a precis of the chapters not included, 16 maps, a glossary, and a list of emperors. |
| Imprint Name: | Wordsworth Editions Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Wordsworth Editions Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1998-09-05 |