Название: The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire
Издательство: Phillips, Sampson
Автор: Gibbon, Edward
Год: 1854
Количество страниц: 652
Формат: PDF
Размер: 34 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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LIX. PRESERVATION OP THE GREEK EMPIRE. — NUMBERS, PASSAGE, AND
EVENT, OP THE SECOND AND THIRD CRUSADES. — ST. BERNARD. — REIGN OF 8ALADIN IN EGYPT AND SYRIA. — HIS CONQUESTS OF JERUSALEM. — NAVAL CRUSADES. — RICHARD THE FIRST OF ENGLAND. — POPE INNOCENT THE THIRD ; AND THE FOURTH AVD FIFTH CRUSADES. — THE EMPEROR FREDERIC THE SECOND. — LOUIS THE NINTH OF FRANCE; AND THE TWO LAST CRUSADES. — EXPULSION OF THE LATINS OR FRANKS BY THE MAMALUKES.
LX. SCHISM OP THE GREEKS AND LATINS. — STATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE. — REVOLT OF THE BULGARIANS. — ISAAC ANGELUS DETHROfTED BY HIS
BROTHER ALEXIUS. — ORIGIN OP THE FOURTH CRUSADE. — ALLIANCE OF THE FRENCH AND VENETIANS yVITH THE SON OF ISAAC. — THEIR NAVAL EXPEDITION TO CONSTANTINOPLE. — THE TWO SIEGES AND PINAL CONQUEST OF THE CITY BY THE LATINS
LXl. PAETITION OF THE EMPIRE BY THE FRENCH AND VENETIANS.FIVE
LATIN EMPERORS OF THE HOtJSES OF FLANDERS AND COURTENAY.THEIR WARS AGAINST THE BULGARIANS AND GREEKS.WEAKNESS AND POVERTY OF THE LATIN EMPIRE.RECOVERY OF CONSTANTINOPLE BY THE GREEKS. GENERAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE CRUSADES.
LXII. THE GREEEK EMPERORS OF NICE AND CONSTANTINOPLE. ELETATION
AND REIGN OF ^MICHAEL PALJEOLOGUS. HIS FALSE UNION WITH THE POPE AND THE LATIN CHURCH. HOSTILE DESIGNS OF CHARLES OF ANJOU. REVOLT OF SICILY. WAR OF THE CATALANS IN ASIA AND GREECE. REVOLUTIONS AND PRESENT STATE OF ATHENS.
LXIII. CIVIL WARS, AND RUIN OF THE GREEK EMPIRE. REIGNS OF ANDEONICUS, THE ELDER AND YOUNGER, AND JOHN PALJEOLOQUS. REGENCY, REVOLT, REIGN, AND ABDICATION OF JOHN CANTACUZENE. ESTABLISHMENT OF A GENOESE COLONY AT PERA OR GALATA. THEIR "WARS "WITH THE EMPIRE AND CITY OF CONSTANTINOPLE.
LXIV. CONQUESTS OP ZINGIS KHAN AND THE MOGULS FROM CHINA TO POLAND. ESCAPE OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE GREEKS. ORIGIN OF THE
OTTOMAN TURKS IN BITHYNIA. — REIGNS AND VICTORIES OP OTHMAN,ORCHAN, AMUEATH THE PIRST, AND BAJAZET THE FIRST. FOUNDATION AND PR0GRES8 OF THE TURKISH MONARCHY IN ASIA AND EUROPE. DANGER OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE GREEK EMPIRE.
LXV. ELEVATION OF TIMOUR OR TAMERLANE TO THE THRONE OF SAMARCAND. HIS CONQUESTS IN PERSIA, GEORGIA, TARTARY, RUSSIA, INDIA, SYRIA, AND ANATOLIA. HIS TURKISH WAR. DEFEAT AND CAPTIVITY OF BAJAZET. DEATH OF TIMOUR. CIVIL "WAR OF THE SONS OF BAJAZET. RESTORATION OF THE TURKISH MONARCHY BY MAHOMET THE FIRST. SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE BY AMURATH THE SECOND.
LXVI. APPLICATIONS OF THE EASTERN EMPERORS TO THE POPES. VISITS TO THE WEST, OP JOHN THE FIRST, MANUEL, AND JOHN THE SECOND, PAL^OLOGUS. UNION OF THE GREEK AND LATIN CHURCHES, PROMOTED BY THE COUNCIL OF BASIL, AND CONCLUDED AT FERRAKA AND FLORENCE. STATE OF LITERATURE AT CONSTANTINOPLE. ITS REVIVAL IN ITALY BY THE GREEK FUGITIVES. CURIOSITY AND EMULATION OF THE LATINS
LXVII. SCHISM OF THE GREEKS AND LATINS. REIGN AND CHARACTER OF
AMURATH THE SECOND. CRUSADE OF LADISLAUS KING OF HUNGARY. HIS DEFEAT AND DEATH. JOHN HUNIADES. SCANDERBEG. CONSTANTINE PALEOLOGUS, LAST EMPEROR OF THE EAST.
LXVIII. REIGN AND CHARACTER OF MAHOMET THE SECOND. SIEGE, ASSAULT, AND FINAL CONQUEST OF CONSTANTINOPLE BY THE TURKS. DEATH
OF CONSTANTINE PALEOLOGUS. SERVITUDE OF THE GREEKS. EXTINCTION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE EAST. CONSTERNATION OF EUROPE. CONQUESTS AND DEATH OF MAHOMET THE SECOND.
LXIX. STATE OF ROME FROM THE TWELFTH CENTURY. TEMPORAL DOMINION OF THE POPES. SEDITIONS OF THE CITY. POLITICAL HERESY OF
ARNOLD OP BRESCIA. RESTORATION OF THE REPUBLIC. THE SENATORS. PRIDE OF THE ROMANS. THEIR WARS. THEY ARE DEPRIVED OF THE ELECTION AND PRESENCE OF THE POPES, WHO RETIRE TO AVIGNON. THE JUBILEE. NOBLE FAMILIES OF ROME. FEUD OF THE COLONNA AND URSINI.
LXX. CHARACTER AND CORONATION OP PETRARCH. — RESTORATION OF THE FREEDOM AND GOVERNMENT OF ROME BY THE TRIBUNE RIENZI. HIS VIRTUES AND VICES, HIS EXPULSION AND DEATH. RETURN OF THE POPES FROM AVIGNON. — GREAT SCHISM OF THE "WEST. REUNION OF THE. LATIN CHURCH. — LAST STRUGGLES OF ROMAN LIBERTY. STATUTES OF ROME. FINAL SETTLEMENT OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL STATE.
LXXI. PEOSPECT OF THE E.UINS OF ROME IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. FOUR CAUSES OF DECAY AND DESTRUCTION. EXAMPLE OF THE COLISEUM.
RENOVATION OF THE CITY. CONCLUSION OF THE "WHOLE TVORK.

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