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Books That Matter: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Overview

<p>Join a Harvard professor to examine the meaning and impact of Edward Gibbon's masterpiece.</p>

Syllabus

  • By This Professor
  • 01: The Greatness of Gibbon's Decline and Fall
  • 02: The Making of Gibbon the Historian
  • 03: The Empire at Its Beginning
  • 04: The Theory and Practice of History
  • 05: The Golden Age of the Antonines
  • 06: The Hidden Poison Begins to Work
  • 07: Diocletian and the Triumph of Constantine
  • 08: Enlightenment Skepticism
  • 09: The Rise of Christianity
  • 10: Constantine and Athanasius
  • 11: Julian and the Return to Paganism
  • 12: Barbarian Advances and Theodosius
  • 13: East and West Divided
  • 14: Huns and Vandals
  • 15: Theodoric and Justinian
  • 16: The Breakup of the Empire
  • 17: The Byzantine Empire and Charlemagne
  • 18: The Rise of Islam
  • 19: The Byzantine Empire in the 10th Century
  • 20: The Crusades
  • 21: Genghis Khan and Tamerlane
  • 22: The Fall of Constantinople
  • 23: The End of Gibbon's Work
  • 24: Decline and Fall in Modern Perspective

Taught by

Leo Damrosch

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