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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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.