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

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Course Description

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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