![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() xii) in a survey that revises Gibbon's grand narrative. Peter Heather, drawing upon twenty years of research, writing, and teaching on Romans and "barbarians" of the fourth and fifth centuries CE, has sought to explain "the strange death of Roman Europe" (p. So vast, learned, and eloquent a History would seem to foreclose imitation, but empire-building and imperial collapse hold perennial appeal and invite philosophical speculation. Bury's critical edition (1896–1902), beginning with Emperor Trajan (2d century CE), detouring to pastoral nomadism and the rise of Islam, and terminating with the Renaissance popes' adornment of Rome and Sultan Mehmet II's storming of Constantinople on. In 1787 Edward Gibbon declared farewell to the massive project that had claimed his attention for over twenty years, namely, a description of the "greatest and most awful scene in the history of mankind." The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–88) comprises seven volumes in J. ![]()
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