

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume VI
Author: Edward Gibbon
Narrator: David Timson
Unabridged: 28 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 09/29/2014
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Roman History
Author: Edward Gibbon
Narrator: David Timson
Unabridged: 28 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 09/29/2014
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.
Yesterday, I concluded the largest reading project I’ve tackled so far, with the completion of the 6th and final volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire! I began reading Gibbon’s masterpiece on September 22, 2016, and chose to listen to it as an Audible book, read by the wonderfully talen......more
Book VI covers periods and incidences during the decline of Rome where hundreds of thousands of people were murdered over religious issues. the zeal of his flock was again exasperated by the same question, "Whether one of the Trinity had been crucified?"…Day and night they were incessantly busied......more
This sixth volume of Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Folio Society edition) begins in 641 CE and ends in the 12th century. “[T]he line of empire, which had been defined by the laws of Justinian and the arms of Belisarius, recedes on all sides from our view …......more
3.412 stars, I liked it. And worth returning to, in a decade or two when I'm more historically literate The work of Gibbon's life is a valuable addition to one's background. It is an accessible text, and the narration was excellent (I was convinced the narrator was Ian McDiarmid, who played Emperor P......more