TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gibbon,Edward
AU  - Bury,J.B.
TI  - The decline and fall of the Roman Empire
SN  - 067960149X (v. 2)
AV  - DG311 .G5 1995
PY  - 0000///n.d
CY  - London
PB  - Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co.
KW  - Rome
KW  - History
KW  - Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
KW  - Byzantine Empire
N1  - v. 1. The history of the Empire from A.D. 180 to A.D. 395 -- v. 2. The history of the Empire from A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185
N2  - 'Gibbon is a kind of bridge that connects the ancient with the ancient with the modern ages, ' noted Thomas Carlyle. 'And how gorgeously does it swing across the gloomy and tumultuous chasm of these barbarous centuries.' 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
ER  -