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Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

Auteur de Histoire du déclin et de la chute de l'Empire romain

651+ oeuvres 14,818 utilisateurs 139 critiques 37 Favoris

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Œuvres de Edward Gibbon

The Christians and the Fall of Rome (1776) 426 exemplaires
Britannica Great Books: Gibbon I (1952) 267 exemplaires
Britannica Great Books: Gibbon II (1952) 244 exemplaires
Reflections on the Fall of Rome (1995) 127 exemplaires
Edward Gibbon's Atlas of the World (1991) 36 exemplaires
Rome de 96 à 582 (2000) 23 exemplaires
Los Cristianos y la caída de Roma (2013) 16 exemplaires
Der Sieg des Islam (2003) 9 exemplaires
The letters of Edward Gibbon (1956) 5 exemplaires
Zmierzch Cesarstwa Rzymskiego (1995) 4 exemplaires
The Works 2 exemplaires
CRISTIANOS LA CAIDA DE ROMA, LOS (2013) 2 exemplaires
Man and society (1982) 2 exemplaires
La Chute de Constantinople (2011) 2 exemplaires
Charlemagne (2012) 2 exemplaires
VIAGGIO IN ITALIA 1 exemplaire
These Splendid Fighters. (1925) 1 exemplaire
Early History of the Goths (2018) 1 exemplaire
El coliseo 2010 1 exemplaire
Der Sieg des Islam. (1985) 1 exemplaire
Great Books 41 1 exemplaire
Great Books 40 1 exemplaire
The Crusades - A.D. 1095-1261 (2010) 1 exemplaire
Milman's Gibbon's Rome (1883) 1 exemplaire
The decline and fall 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Nouvelles Fantastiques. (1955) — Contributeur — 272 exemplaires
Eighteenth-Century English Literature (1969) — Auteur — 186 exemplaires
Candide; or, Optimism: a new translation, backgrounds, criticism (1966) — Contributeur — 151 exemplaires
Classic Essays in English (1961) — Contributeur — 22 exemplaires
The Decline and Fall (1967) 6 exemplaires
Book handbook, no. 2, 1947 (1947) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires

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EP Decline and Fall for sale/swap à Easton Press Collectors (Novembre 2013)
Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" footnote à Ancient History (Juillet 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.… (plus d'informations)
 
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ritaer | 2 autres critiques | 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.… (plus d'informations)
 
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DavidFranks | 2 autres critiques | 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 | 40 autres critiques | Dec 21, 2023 |

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Œuvres
651
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Membres
14,818
Popularité
#1,555
Évaluation
4.1
Critiques
139
ISBN
565
Langues
15
Favoris
37

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