The eighteenth-century British historian provides an account of his childhood, education, travels, and composition of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Written originally as the 15th and 16th chapters of his great work, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788), On Christianity joined the growing number of revisionist histories whose autho
Gibbon's historic book on the latter portion of the Roman Empire remains both a landmark in long books and a classic, well worth reading for a more complete view of the world.
The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, Volume IIn the second century of the Christian Aera, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized port