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Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

Autor(a) de The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

657+ Works 14,902 Membros 139 Reviews 37 Favorited

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Obras de Edward Gibbon

Memoirs of My Life (1796) 398 cópias
Der Sieg des Islam (2003) 9 cópias
The Works 2 cópias
Charlemagne (2012) 2 cópias
The Fall of Constantinople (2011) 2 cópias
Man and society (1982) 2 cópias
VIAGGIO IN ITALIA 1 exemplar(es)
The Crusades - A.D. 1095-1261 (2010) 1 exemplar(es)
These Splendid Fighters. (1925) 1 exemplar(es)
Early History of the Goths (2018) 1 exemplar(es)
Great Books 40 1 exemplar(es)
El coliseo 2010 1 exemplar(es)
Der Sieg des Islam. (1985) 1 exemplar(es)
Great Books 41 1 exemplar(es)
Milman's Gibbon's Rome (1883) 1 exemplar(es)
Works of Edward Gibbon 1 exemplar(es)
The decline and fall 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Extraordinary Tales (1955) — Contribuinte — 274 cópias
Eighteenth-Century English Literature (1969) — Autor — 187 cópias
Candide [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1966) — Contribuinte — 152 cópias
Classic Essays in English (1961) — Contribuinte — 22 cópias
The Decline and Fall (1967) 6 cópias
Book handbook, no. 2, 1947 (1947) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias

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EP Decline and Fall for sale/swap em Easton Press Collectors (Novembro 2013)
Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" footnote em Ancient History (Julho 2010)

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Reread, spring 2024. Like most history of the time Gibbon concentrates on leaders, wars and battles and politics. He does, however, expand on the influence of Christianity including the battles between different sects. Not strong on the effects of geography, he attributes a lifestyle of herding to indolence rather than recognizing that the Eurasian steppes do not support the same type of agriculture as the Mediterranean or of Western Europe. It is still a pleasure to read his fluent, detailed, yet comprehensible prose style.… (mais)
 
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ritaer | outras 2 resenhas | Mar 7, 2024 |
Edward Gibbon€™s classic timeless work of ancient Roman history in 6 volumes collected into 2 boxed sets, in beautiful, enduring hardcover editions with elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers.
 
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AG0900 | Feb 26, 2024 |
This abridged and illustrated version of Gibbon's masterpiece is the first of its kind. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of photographs of Roman sites, paintings, line drawings, and prints from archives throughout Europe, it will prove to be a collector's item for classicists and historians and will stand as a valuable reference work for libraries and universities alike. Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireis a fine addition to the private collection of all those who love history and who admire the work of one of the greatest historians who ever set pen to paper.… (mais)
 
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DavidFranks | outras 2 resenhas | Feb 9, 2024 |
My gosh this was a slog! Six books of 600 pages each. It was definitely worth the effort, though. I must admit that the level of detail was daunting, but the patterns that such detail exhibited the rhyming history that Mark Twain remarked upon.

I have neither the time nor the inclination to comprehensively rate the series. My favorite aspects of the series are the comprehensive research against primary sources (I gave up trying to read the footnotes after about the second book) and the double-history perspective of a late-18th-century writer examining Roman and Byzantine history. This is an impressive feat of scholarship!

Another motivation for my reading the series was to fill the gaps of my understanding of this massive span of time. Naturally, the interminable list of emperors' names blended together after a while, but the sweep of the narrative will guide me when I next encounter these names, times, and places. The podcast Hardcore History had already done a pretty comprehensive job covering the Mongolian Empire, so it was satisfying to see that narrative mesh with Gibbon's description of the period. I expect this will happen many times over the course of my future reading.

If you're interested in the history of Western Civilization, I'd recommend putting in the effort to read the entire series. Although I found the level of detail to be tedious at times, I am glad that I persevered.
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cmayes | outras 40 resenhas | Dec 21, 2023 |

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Obras
657
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Membros
14,902
Popularidade
#1,542
Avaliação
4.1
Resenhas
139
ISBNs
566
Idiomas
15
Favorito
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