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Edward Gibbon
Books by Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralist...