Название: The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire Volume 4
Издательство: Phillips, Sampson
Автор: Gibbon, Edward
Год: 1854
Количество страниц: 668
Формат: PDF
Размер: 65 mb
Язык: English

Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. David Womersley's masterly selection and bridging commentary enables the readerto acquire a general sense of the progress and argument of the whole work and displays the full variety of Gibbon's achievement.





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XXXIX. SENO AND ANASTASIUS, EMPERORS OP THE EAST. BIRTH, EDUCATION, AND FIRST EXPLOITS OP THEODORIC THE OSTROGOTH. HIS INVASION AND CONQVEST OF ITALY. THE GOTHIC KINGDOM OF ITALY. STATE OP THE WEST. MILITARY AND CIVIL GOVERNMENT. THE SENATOR BOETRIUS. LAST ACTS AND DEATH OP THEODORIC
XL. ELEVATION OF JUSTIN THE ELDER. REIGN OF JUSTINIAN : I. THE
EMPRESS THEODORA. II. FACTIONS OF THE CIRCUS, AND SEDITION OF CONSTANTINOPLE. III. TRADE AND MANUFACTURE OF SILK. IV. FINANCES AND TAXES. V. EDIFICES OF JUSTINIAN. CHURCH OF ST. SOPHIA. FORTIFICATIONS AND FRONTIERS OF THE EASTERN EMPIRE. VI. ABOLITION OF THE SCHOOLS OF ATHENS, AND THE CONSULSHIP OF ROME
XLI. CONQUESTS OF JT STINIAN IN THE WEST. CHARACTER AND FIRST
CAMPAIGNS OF BELISARIUS. HE INVADES AND SUBDUES THE VANDAL KINGDOM OF AFRICA. HIS TRIUMPH. THE GOTHIC WAR. HE RECOVERS SICILY, NAPLES, AND ROME. SIEGE OF ROME BY THE GOTHS. THEIR RETREAT AND LOSSES. SURRENDER OF RAVENNA. GLORY OF BELISARIUS. HIS DOMESTIC SHAME AND MISFORTUNES
XLII. STATE OF THE BARBARIC WORLD. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LOMBARDS ON THE DANUBE. TRIBES AND INROADS OF THE SCLAV ONIANS.
ORIGIN, EMPIRE, AND EMBASSIES OF THE TURKS. THE FLIGHT OF THE AVARS. CHOSROES I., OR NUSHIRVAN, KING OF PERSIA. HIS PROSPEROUS REIGN AND WARS WITH THE ROMANS. THE COLCHIAK OR LAZIG WAR. THE ^ETHIOPIANS
XLIII. REBELLIONS OF AFRICA. RESTORATION OF THE GOTHIC KINGDOM OF TOTILA. LOSS AND RECOVERY OF ROME. FINAL CONQUEST OF ITALY BY NARSES. EXTINCTION OF THB OSTROGOTHS. DEFEAT OF
XLIV. IDEA OF THE ROMAN JURISPRUDENCE. THE LAWS OF THE KINGS. THE TWELVE TABLES OF THE DECEMVIRS. THE LAWS OF THE PEOPLE. THE DECREES OF THE SENATE. THE EDICTS OF THE MAGISTRATES AND EMPERORS. AUTHORITY OF THE CIVILIANS. CODE, PANDECTS, NOVELS, AND INSTITUTES OF JUSTINIAN : I. RIGHTS OF PERSONS. II. RIGHTS OF THINGS. III. PRIVATE INJURIES AND ACTIONS. IT CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
XLV. REIGN OF THE YOUNGER JUSTIN. EMBASSY OF THE AVARS. THEIR
SETTLEMENT ON THE DANUBE. CONQUEST OF ITALY BY THE LOMBARDS. ADOPTION AND REIGN OF TIBERIUS. OF MAURICE. STATE OF ITALY UNDER THE LOMBARDS AND THE EXARCHS OF RAVENNA. DISTRESS OF ROME. CHARACTER AND PONTIFICATE OF GREGORY THE FIRST
XLVI.REVOLUTIONS OF PERSIA AFTER THE DEATH OF CHOSROES OF NUSHIRVAN. HIS SON HORMOUZ, A TYRANT, IS DEPOSED. USURPATION OP
BAHRAM. FLIGHT AND RESTORATION OF CHOSROES II. HIS GRATITUDE TO THE ROMANS. THE CHAGAN OF THE AVARS. REVOLT OF THE ARMY AGAINST MAURICE. HIS DEATH. TYRANNY OF PHOCA. ELEVATION OF HERACLIUS. THE PERSIAN WAR. CHOSROES SUBDUES SYRIA, EGYPT, AND ASIA MINOR. SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE BY THE PERSIANS AND AVARS. PERSIAN EXPEDITIONS. VICTO
RIES AND TRIUMPH OP HERACLIUS
XLVII. THEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE INCARNATION. THE HUMAN AND DIVINE NATURE OF CHRIST. ENMITY OF THE PATRIARCHS OF ALEXANDRIA AND CONSTANTINOPLE. ST. CYRIL AND NESTORIUS. THIRD GENERAL COUNCIL OF EPHESUS. HERESY OF EUTYCHES. FOURTH GENERAL COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON. CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL DISCORD. INTOLERANCE OF JUSTINIAN. THE THREE CHAPTERS. THE MOXOTHELITE CONTROVERSY. STATE OF THE ORIENTAL SECTS. I. THE NESTORIANS. II. THE JACOBITES. III. THE MARONITES. IV. THE ARMENIANS. V. THE COPTS AND ABYSSINIANS.
XLVIII. PLAN OF THE LAST TWO "VOLUMES. SUCCESSION AND CHARACTERS OF THE GREEK EMPERORS OP CONSTANTINOPLE, FROM THE TIME OF HERACLIUS TO THE LATIN CONQUEST.

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