History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
This fifth volume of Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in the edition with notes by Henry Hart Milman, ranges widely across the early Middle Ages. It begins with the controversy over images, the rise of the temporal power of the popes and the coronation of Charlemagne, then gives Gibbon's account of Arabia, the life of Muhammad and the Arab conquests, the sieges of Constantinople and the state of the Byzantine court. Further chapters follow the Paulicians, the Bulgarians, Hungarians and Russians, the Normans in southern Italy, the rise of the Seljuk Turks, and the First Crusade. The breadth of the survey matches the elegance and irony of the prose. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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