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Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

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Werke von Edward Gibbon

Der Untergang Roms (1788) 3,235 Exemplare
Britannica Great Books: Gibbon I (1952) 268 Exemplare
Britannica Great Books: Gibbon II (1952) 246 Exemplare
Reflections on the Fall of Rome (1995) 127 Exemplare
Der Sieg des Islam (2003) 9 Exemplare
The letters of Edward Gibbon (1956) 5 Exemplare
Zmierzch Cesarstwa Rzymskiego (1995) 4 Exemplare
Man and society (1982) 2 Exemplare
Charlemagne (2012) 2 Exemplare
The Works 2 Exemplare
The Fall of Constantinople (2011) 2 Exemplare
Early History of the Goths (2018) 1 Exemplar
These Splendid Fighters. (1925) 1 Exemplar
VIAGGIO IN ITALIA 1 Exemplar
Great Books 41 1 Exemplar
Great Books 40 1 Exemplar
Der Sieg des Islam. (1985) 1 Exemplar
El coliseo 2010 1 Exemplar
Milman's Gibbon's Rome (1883) 1 Exemplar

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Die fremde Dienerin (1955) — Mitwirkender — 274 Exemplare
Eighteenth-Century English Literature (1969) — Autor — 187 Exemplare
Candide [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1966) — Mitwirkender — 154 Exemplare
Classic Essays in English (1961) — Mitwirkender — 22 Exemplare
The Decline and Fall (1967) 6 Exemplare
Book handbook, no. 2, 1947 (1947) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare

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EP Decline and Fall for sale/swap in Easton Press Collectors (November 2013)
Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" footnote in Ancient History (Juli 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.… (mehr)
 
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ritaer | 2 weitere Rezensionen | 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.… (mehr)
 
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DavidFranks | 2 weitere Rezensionen | 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 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 21, 2023 |

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