The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Fall Of The Roman Empire In The East | |||||||||||
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Originally Issued as Three Volumes In 1788 IV—Chapters 39-47 V—Chapters 48-57 VI —Chapters 58-71 | |||||||||||
Ch. | Scope | Ch. | Scope | Ch. | Scope | Ch. | Scope | ||||
39 | AD 455-526 | 47 | Christianity | 55 | The Bulgarians | 63 | Ruin of the Greek empire | ||||
40 | Justinian | 48 | Greek Emperors | 56 | Saracens, Franks & Greeks | 64 | The Moguls | ||||
41 | Belisarius | 49 | AD 726-1356 | 57 | Turks of Seljuk | 65 | Timour & Bajazet | ||||
42 | The Barbaric World | 50 | Arabia & Mahomet | 58 | First Crusade | 66 | Applications to the Popes | ||||
43 | AD 535-594 | 51 | Saracen Conquests | 59 | Second & Third Crusades | 67 | AD 1440-1452 | ||||
44 | Roman Law | 52 | Empire of the Caliphs | 60 | Greeks and Latins | 68 | Fall in the East | ||||
45 | AD 565-604 | 53 | Eastern Empire in the 10th Century | 61 | The Courtenays | 69 | Rome from the 12th Century | ||||
46 | Persian Wars | 54 | The Paulicans | 62 | Restoration of the Greek empire. | 70 | Petrarch & Rienzi | ||||
71 | Conclusion |
Edited by the author of A Study Of Our Decline