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Carregando... The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 4de Edward Gibbon
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Here we read of the consolidation of the Christian church as it fights amongst itself over the issues of transubstantiation and the vigin birth. It's interesting to note that not many thought Jesus was a part of the Father until somewhere about 180 A.D. Until then he was an inspired rabbi. As the Roman Empire had divided into East and West Empires, so the church now became the Greek Orthodox and the Roman Catholic churches, although they hadn't begun calling themselves that yet. Glibbons' inability to express himself clearly; his coninuing nightmare of sentences, his taking a page to say what could have been said in one line; all puts this particular part down a notch. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)937.06History and Geography Ancient World Italian Peninsula to 476 and adjacent territories to 476 Italian Peninsula to 476 and adjacent territories to 476 Empire 31 B.C.-476 A.D.Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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So what we have are good sections on the Ostrogothic and Vandal kingdoms and the campaigns of Belisarius and Narsus. The part concerning the religious divisions both within the Byzantine Empire and its Roman Catholic (and other denominational) neighbours, has an appealing dry humour, but only if we accept that Gibbon does not have the last word on the subject. By the end of the work we are back to the palace intrigues, who stabbed/poisoned who which sometimes marred portions of the earlier volumes. No account is made of the wider Byzantine society, which Gibbon hardly mentions at all. The word 'Greek' is used throughout as an synonym for decadence and decay as compared to the more 'vigorous' northern peoples which doesn't help either.
So, the Italian campaigns and the chapter on Christianity aside, I found this the weakest volume of Decline and Fall. ( )