Название: The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire Volume 3
Издательство: Phillips, Sampson
Автор: Gibbon, Edward
Год: 1854
Количество страниц: 670
Формат: PDF
Размер: 67 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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XXVI. MANNERS OP THE PASTORAL NATIONS. PROGRESS OF THE HUNS FROM CHINA TO EUROPE. FLIGHT OF THE GOTHS. THEY PASS THE DANUBE. GOTHIC WAR. DEFEAT AND DEATH OF VALENS. GRATIAN INVESTS THEODOSIUS WITH THE EASTERN EMPIRE. HIS CHARACTER AND SUCCESS. PEACE AND SETTLEMENT OF THE GOTHS
XXVII.DEATH OF GRATIAN. RUIN OF ARIANISM. ST. AMBROSE. FIRST CIVIL WAR AGAINST MAXIMUS. CHARACTER, ADMINISTRATION, AND PENANCE OF THEODOSJUS. DEATH OF VALENTINIAN II. SECOND CIVIL WAR AGAINST EUGENIU8. DEATH OF THEODOSIUS.
XXVIII. FINAL DESTRUCTION OF PAGANISM. INTRODUCTION OF THE WORSHIP OF SAINTS AND RELICS AMONG THE CHRISTIANS.
XXIX. FINAL DIVISION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE BETWEEN THE SONS OF THEODOSIUS. REIGN OF ARCADIUS AND HONORIUS. ADMINISTRATION OF RUFINUS AND STILICHO. REVOLT AND DEFEAT OF GILDO IN AFRICA.
XXX REVOLT OP THE GOTHS. THEY PLUNDER GREECE. TWO GREAT INVA -
SIONS OF ITALY BY ALARIO AND RADAGAISUS. THEY ARE REPULSED BY STILICHO. THE GERMANS OVERRUN GAUL. USURPATION OF CONSTANTINE IN THE WEST. DISGRACE AND DEATH OF STILICHO
XXXI. INVASION OF ITALY BY ALARIC. MANNERS OF THE ROMAN SENATE
AND PEOPLE. ROME IS THRICE BESIEGED, AND AT LENGTH PILLAGED BY THE GOTHS. DEATH OF ALARIC. THE GOTHS EVACUATB ITALY. FALL OF CONSTANTINE. GAUL AND SPAIN ARE OCCUPIED BY THE BARBARIANS. INDEPENDENCE OF BRITAIN
XXXII. EMPEROR OF THE EAST. ADMINISTRATION AND DISGRACE OF EUTROPIUS. REVOLT OF GAINAS. PERSECUTION OF ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM. THEODOSIUS II. EMPEROR OF THE EAST. HIS SISTER PULCHERIA. HIS WIFE EUDOCIA. THE PERSIAN WAR, AND DIVISION OF ARMENIA.
XXXIII. DEATH OF HONORIUS. VALENTINIAN III. EMPEROR OP THE WEST.
ADMINISTRATION OF HIS MOTHER PLACIDIA. ETIUS AND BONIFACE. CONQUEST OF AFRICA BY THE VANDALS
XXXIV. THE CHARACTER, CONQUESTS, AND COURT OF ATTILA, KING OF THE HUNS. DEATH OF THEODOSIUS THE YOUNGER. ELEVATION OF MARCIAN TO THE EMPIRE OF THE EAST
XXXV. INVASION OP GAUL BY ATTILA. HE IS REPULSED BY JETIUS AND THE VISIGOTHS. ATTILA INVADES AND EVACUATES ITALY. THE DEATHS OF ATTILA, ETIUS, AND VALENTINIAN III
XXXVI. ACK OP ROME BY GENSERIC, KINO OF THE VANDALS. HIS NAVAL
DEPREDATIONS. SUCCESSION OF THE LAST EMPERORS OF THE WEST, MAXIMUS, AVITUS, MAJORIAN, SEVERUS, ANTHEMIUS, OLYBRIUS, GLY- CERIUS, NEPO8, AUGUSTULUS. TOTAL EXTINCTION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE. REIGN OF ODOACER, THE FIRST BARBARIAN KING OF ITALY.
XXXVII. ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND EFFECTS OF THE MONASTIC LIFE.CONVERSION OF THE BARBARIANS TO CHRISTIANITY AND ARIANISM. PERSECUTION OF THE VANDALS IN AFRICA. EXTINCTION OF ARIANISM AMONG THE BARBARIANS
XXXVIII. REIGN AND CONVERSION OP CLOVIS. HIS VICTORIES OVER THE ALEMANNI, BURGUNDIANS, AND VISIGOTHS. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FRENCH MONARCHY IN GAUL. LAWS OF THE BARBARIANS. STATE OP THE ROMANS. THE VISIGOTHS OF SPAIN. CONdUESX OF BRITAIN BY THE SAXONS

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