The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II
By: Edward Gibbon ~ Editor: J. B. Bury ~ Introduction by: Daniel J. Boorstin
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The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II Summary
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"I have described the triumph of barbarism and religion," wrote the author in the famous epigram that summed up his towering achievement in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Indeed, Gibbon, the supreme historian of the Enlightenment -- the illustrious scholar who envisioned history as a branch of literature -- seemed almost predestined to write his monumental account of the Roman Empire's terrible self-destruction. The second volume contains chapters twenty-seven through forty-eight of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
"Gibbon is a kind of bridge that connects the ancient with the modern ages... And how gorgeously does it swing across the gloomy and tumultuous chasm of these barbarous centuries." THOMAS CARLYLE "Gibbon is not merely a master of the pageant and the story; he is also the critic and the historian of the mind... Without his satire, his irreverence, his mixture of sedateness and slyness, of majesty and mobility, and above all that belief in reason which pervades the whole book and gives it unity, an implicit if unspoken message, the Decline and Fall would be the work of another man....We seem as we read him raised above the tumult and the chaos into a clear and rational air."
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