

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume V
Author: Edward Gibbon
Narrator: David Timson
Unabridged: 27 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 09/01/2014
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Roman History
Author: Edward Gibbon
Narrator: David Timson
Unabridged: 27 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 09/01/2014
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Roman History
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), an English historian and member of Parliament, had little formal education. He went to Oxford, but was forced to leave when he converted to Roman Catholicism. His family then sent him to Lausanne, where he was reconverted to Protestantism. His most important work, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.
Such an incredible journey it has been, reading one of the great masterpieces of historical writing. I wondered, at the outset, at the prospect of tackling such a voluminous work; yet, here I am at the conclusion of Volume 5, with one more to go! The more I read (actually in my case, listen, on Audib......more
Gibbon doesn’t put dates on anything. He just narrates it all out. Volume V seems to cover the 500-600 AD period, which contained the reign and laws of Justinian. My favorite aspect of this period was the astoundingly competent general, Belisarius, who somehow re-conquered much of the western empire......more
This fifth volume of Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Folio Society edition) begins in 474 CE and ends in 641 CE. Picking up where volume IV left off: Odoacer, king of Italy, who had overthrown the Western Empire, is assassinated in the first ten pages. I was......more
This volume is vast in its geographical and chronological extent. In one giant leap, Gibbon crosses six centuries of time and the great expanse of land from Spain to Afghanistan. The author continues the tale from Heraclius when Islam reared its head in Arabia and stops just short of the Latin conqu......more