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Chargement... The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire {abridged, Naxos}par Edward Gibbon
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Zeer goede schets van de ondeugden van de Romeinse keizers als reden van de ondergang van Rome. Taal is wel zeer verouderd. Ligt niet alleen aan de vertaling en is begrijpelijk gezien de tijdsperiode van de schrijver. Toch vraag ik mij af of een aanpassing van de taal en een meer handzame uitgave niet nuttig zou zijn. ( ) This audio CD is an excellent abridgement, at least for those among us who are lame dilettantes (like your humble narrator) seeking the flavor of Gibbon's magnum opus without also spending three years reading of your life reading all six volumes. This edition is almost exclusively focused on the collapse of the West, very little is said about the rise of Byzantium and nothing at all about the rise of Islam. Whether or not his speculations about the decline of the Western Empire have held up in the light of subsequent scholarship I am not qualified to judge, but his supposed anti-Christian bias did not really seem all that apparent to me, at least in this edition, though he does seem to go to embarrassing lengths to lionize a Julian the Apostate, both in the audio book and apparently in the actual text. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is one of the greatest texts in the English language. In magisterial prose, Gibbon charts the gradual collapse of the Roman rule from Augustus (23BC-AD14) to the first of the Barbarian kings, Odoacer (476-490 AD). It is a remarkable account, with the extravagant corruption and depravity of emperors such as Commodus, Caracalla and Elagabalus contrasted by the towering work of Constantine, Julian and other remarkable men. It remains the standard work of scholarship on the subject two hundred years after it was written; yet equally important, in its sheer accessibility, it is an unforgettable story. Music: Schumann, Raff .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (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.Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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