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The Books: “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” (Edward Gibbon)

Posted on February 12, 2006 by sheila

I’m on my history bookshelf. Next book on this shelf is called The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) by Edward Gibbon. It’s one of those things where you say … uh … SOME … Continue reading →

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LM Montgomery on “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, by Edward Gibbon

Posted on May 20, 2004 by sheila

LM Montgomery read the entire 3-volume thing 3 or 4 times in her life. She loved it. I read it, because she read it. I’m nuts. But it is extraordinary indeed. “I am on my third volume of him now … Continue reading →

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LM Montgomery on “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” by Edward Gibbon

Posted on May 20, 2004 by sheila

More on Decline and Fall. “I finished ‘Decline and Fall’ this evening. It is the third time I have read it…It is a monumental piece of work. I know of no historian so coldly impersonal as Gibbon. He seems more … Continue reading →

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Macrinus

Posted on November 1, 2002 by sheila

It had hitherto been considered as a fundamental maxim of the constitution, that the emperor must be always chosen in the senate, and the sovereign power, no longer exercised by the whole body, was always delegated to one of its … Continue reading →

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