Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon''s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in three instalments from 1776 to 1788, is widely regarded as the greatest work of history in the English language. Starting with the accession of the Roman Emperor Commodus in the late second century CE, Gibbon''s work traverses thirteen centuries, encompassing the rise of Christianity and of Islam, the collapse of th...