History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Publisher: The Folio Society
Published: 1983
Place of publication: London, UK
Format: boxed
Number of pages: 3003
Notes: Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece has never been surpassed for scholarship or elegant prose, remaining an everlasting historical classic. The spread of Christianity; the Barbarian invasions; the various sacks of Rome by Goths, Huns and Vandals; the Crusades; the conquests of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane; the rise of Islam ... From the Antonine Emperors to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ranges over thirteen centuries with flair and wit. A spectacular cast includes Attila the Hun, the Prophet Mohammad, the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne and the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, who re-conquered North Africa and Italy with the aid of his illustrious general, Belisarius. 

"... the blueprint for any study of history."
Table of contents: title: The Turn of the Tide
label: I; title: Constantine and the Christian Empire
label: II; title: The Revival and Collapse of Paganism
label: III; title: The End of the Western Empire
label: IV; title: Justinian and the Roman Law
label: V; title: Mohammed and the Rise of the Arabs
label: VI; title: The Normans in Italy and the Crusades
label: VII; title: The Fall of Constantinople and the Papacy in Rome
label: VIII