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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 4
Year
2015
Language
ENGLISH
Publication Information
Wilder Publications, Inc.
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.