Edward Gibbon and Empire
Contributors: Rosamond McKitterick (Editor); Roland Quinault (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 18, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780521525053
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; c 1700 to c 1800; History: American; Historiography; History; History - General History; Ancient Rome; Europe; Ancient - Rome; Europe - General; Gibbon, Edward, --1737-1794--Views on Rome; Gibbon, Edward,--1737-1794--Views on Rome; History / Europe / General; History / Historiography; History-Ancient - Rome; History-Europe - General
First sentence: Having reached the surrender of Carthage to the Vandals in the year 439, Gibbon ended chapter 33 of Decline and fall by telling the 'memorable fable of the SEVEN SLEEPERS, whose imaginary date corresponds with the reign of the younger Theodosius and the conquest of Africa by the Vandals.