The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire Volume 2

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Название: The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire Volume 2

Издательство: Phillips, Sampson

Автор: Gibbon, Edward

Год: 1854

Количество страниц: 593

Формат: PDF

Размер: 63 mb

Язык: English

Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. David Womersley's masterly selection and bridging commentary enables the readerto acquire a general sense of the progress and argument of the whole work and displays the full variety of Gibbon's achievement.

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XVI. THE CONDUCT OF THE ROMAN OOVERMENT TOWARDS THE CHRISTIANS,

FROM THE REIGN OF NERO TO THAT OF CONSTANTINE

XVII. FOUNDATION OF CONSTANTINOPLE. - POLITICAL SYSTEM OF CONSTANTINE, AND HIS SUCCESES. - MILI'l'ARY DISCIPLINE.-THE PALACE.-THE

FINANCES.

XVIII. CHARACTER OF CONSTANTINE.-GOTHIC WAR.- DEATH OF CONSTANTINE. - DIVISION OF THE EMPIRE AMONG HIS THREE SONS. - PERSIAN WAR.-TRAGIC DEATHS OF CONSTANTINE THE YOUNGER, AND CONSTANS.-USURPATION OF MAGNE1'ìTIUS.-CIYIL WAR.-VICTORY OF CONSTANTICS.

XIX. CONSTANTIUS SOLE EMPEROR.-ELEVATION AND DEATH OF GALLUS.-

DAXGER AND ELEVATION OF JULIAN.-SARMATlAN AND PERSIAN WARS.- VICTORIES OF JULIAN IN GAUL.

XX. THE MOTIVEH, PROGRESS, AND EFFECTS OF THE CONVERSION OF CONSTANTINE- LEGAL ESTABLISHMENT AND CONSTITUTlON OF THE CHRISTIAN, OR CATHOLIC, CHURCH.

XXI. PERSECUTION OF HERESY.-THE SCHISM OF THE DONATISTS.-TlfE

ARIAN CONTROVERSY. -ATHANASIUS.-DISTRACTED STATE OF THE

CHURCH AND EMPIRE UNDER CONSTANTINE AND HIS SONS. - TOLERATION OF PAGANISM

XXII.JULIAN IS DECLARED EMPEROR BY THE LEGIONS OF GAUL. -HIS MARCH AND SUCCESS. - THE DEATHS OF CONSTANTIUS. - CIVIL ADMINISTRATION OF JULIAN.

XXIII. THE RELIGIONS OF JULIAN.-UNIVERSAL TOLERATION.-HE ATTEMPTS TO RESTORE AND REFORM PAGAN WORSHIP-TO REBUILD THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM- HIS ARTFUL PERSECUTION OF THE CHRISTIANS.-MUTUAL ZEAL AND INJUSTICE.

XXIV. RESIDENSE OF JULIAN AT ANTIOCH. - HIS SUCCESSFUL EXPEDITION AGAINST THE PERSIANS. -PASSAGE OF THE TIGRIS. -THE RETREAT

AND DEATH OF JULIAN. -ELECTION OF JOVIAN. -HE SAVES THE ROMAN ARMY BY A DISGRACEFUL TREATY.

XXV. THE GOVERNlIENT AND DEATH OF JOVIAN.-ELECTION OF VALENTIN-

IAN, WHO ASSOCIATES HIS BROTHER VALENS, AND MAKES THE FINAL

DIVISION OF THE EASTERN AND WESTERN EMPIRES.-REVOLT OF PROCOPIUS. CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL ADMINISTRATION.-GERMANY.-BRITAIN.-AFIUCA.- THE EAST.-THE DANUBE.-DEATH OF VALENTINIAN.-HIS TWO SONS, GRATIAN AND VALENTINIAN II.,SUCCEED TO THE WESTERN EMPIRE.