Vol. 7 — October 2026
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Complete)

Edward Gibbon · English

Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire traces Roman history from the age of the Antonines in the second century AD to…

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Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire traces Roman history from the age of the Antonines in the second century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the state of the city of Rome in the fifteenth century. The first of its six original volumes appeared in 1776. This complete edition gathers all seventy-one chapters in one record, with notes by the Rev. H. H. Milman. Its range takes in the crises of the third century, Constantine and the rise of Christianity, the barbarian invasions, Justinian, the Arab conquests, the Crusades and the Ottoman Turks.

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