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obvious issue to address in reviewing the,page unabridged edition of Gibbon's masterpiece, is whether the maniacal effort to attack such a work could ever justify preferring it over a singlevolume abridged edition.
That is an easy call, This work is occasionally tough, often exciting, but in every sense a necessity over any attempts to edit down Gibbon.
I tried thepage Modern Library edition and found it fragmented and hard to follow, simply because Gibbon is telling a story that defies attempts to hone it down.


Is the language stilted and occasionally hard to follow Sure, The first three volumes were released in, and the last three in, Not only are the sentences convoluted and overextended in a manner far greater thanthcentury writers like Dickens, but Gibbon is inclined to use quaint, silly, and occasionally racist terms that were common in his era.
Notions that racial characteristics could be determined by the latitudinal source of an indigenous people's homeland, or that a national culture could be described as "effeminate," have to be taken with an understanding of the limited intelligence of Western philosophersyears ago.


But let's remind ourselves of what Gibbon really accomplished, Without the benefits of online inquiries or Wikipedia, without the easy ability to travel that some historians take for granted, Gibbon did far more than compile a history of the Western Roman empire from the time of Commodius to the collapse of Rome in thes, as well as the companion history of the Eastern Roman Byzantine empire fromAD toAD.
On the way, he compiles histories of Christianity heresies as well as Catholic and Eastern Orthodoxies, Islam Sunni and Shia, and a host of "barbarian" and tribal cultures such as Franks, Goths, Suevi, Huns, Vandals, Persian Sassanid and beyond, khanates, Timurid, and every imaginable iteration thereof.
Gibbon tells history as it should be told as a flow of peoples across a landscape, not as a collection of static dates and personages to be memorized in history class though, truth be told, it would be useful for him to include a few more dates than the years placed in the margins of each page.


It deserves mention that the Catholic Church proscribed this book for more thanyears, and not only or primarily because of how cruel Gibbon was to the Catholic Church I for one would call him "cruel but fair," and he often bent over backward to make the case for orthodox interpretations of Christianity.
Instead, the main reason the Catholic Church attacked Gibbon is because he described events that really happened.
At several points in the lastyears, the Catholic Church has tried to claim that certain events in its attacks on heresy, and certain fights between popes and antipopes, never happened.
Gibbon will have none of that, nor will be accept the events in the lives of the saints as being wholly truthful.
When he demanded factchecking on claims of the Catholic Church, it is no wonder the church hierarchy wanted him banned.


Many suggest that Gibbon worked with more care on the first three volumes covering the Western Empire than he did on the final three volumes.
It's true that after the attempt by Emperor Justinian to retake the Mediterranean, the narrative falters a bit.
Some critics say that this is because Gibbon found the Greek Orthodox Byzantines to be less palatable than the traditional Romans.
It's understandable he would have these feelings, because the Byzantine government and culture did not give rise to any great philosophers and historians, only treacherous rulers who would torture each other in odd lines of succession.
After the ridiculous wars of iconoclasm in the eighth and ninth centuries, the rest of Byzantine history was just a slow ride down to the day in the midth century when Constantinople was finally conquered by Ottoman Muslims.


But Gibbon's problems in the final three volumes were really ones of organization, Perhaps because he didn't want to confuse the readers with the strange succession of emperors, Gibbon groups capsule histories of the emperors early on, then goes back to talk about Islam's spread, the schisms between Orthodox and Catholic churches, the meaning of the steppewarrior invasions both Zingis Khan and Timur, and even some odd chapters on Roman civil uprisings.
There are times in the last two volumes of the history that the reader has to focus to keep the narrative train on the tracks.
And the modern reader always must keep access to Wikipedia handy, because Gibbon rattles off some names tangentially that must be looked up and appraised merely to understand the point he is trying to make.


But as challenging as Gibbon's own idiosyncracies are, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire deserves its reputation as the most significant work of history ever accomplished by a single author in the lastyears.
The personality that comes through in the writing shows us that this multivolume study was not written by committee.
Yet the scope of what Gibbon did, writing in, seems far beyond what most modern historians could accomplish with the aid of electronic tools.
Maybe Will and Ariel Durant's Civilization series deserves to be placed ahead of Gibbon's for that series' massive size and the equally exquisite writing.
Yet the Durants were trying to describe global cultures and their histories in an open and freeflowing way.
Gibbon was on a mission to tell a story that had no happy ending, and the reader morbidly follows as though this was the realworld Game of Thrones: the story inevitably will end badly for all concerned, yet we can't put the books down.
The most astounding work of history ever written, The irony is great, the footnotes are hilarious, He never gets old. His greatest detractors are usually those who never could stomach,pages or more nor the healthy dose of footnotes.
Those who have made the journey realize subtle differences creeping into their existence they begin slipping words like 'indolent' and 'flagitious' into memos and conversations or they construct sentences with a newfound reliance on the semicolon.
I can picture the little man now, rapping his snuffbox and discoursing on Julian or the folly of Honorius.
Only, don't buy the fancy edition pictured here as it is entirely bereft of footnotes, I have an older edition edited by J, B. Bury that includes them all, Gibbon without footnotes is not Gibbon at all, Gibbon, Edward. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Abridged. Introduction by Daniel Boorstin.

This is an abridged edition, It ispages long. If you feel like you would get bogged down from the whole work, this is a welcome addition.
If you are the type where you want to soak in Gibbons magnificent prose, then get the Penguin edition of the full text, which are edited by David Womersley.


Before we begin we need to spend time on Gibbons prose style, Like Samuel Johnson he was a master of the “periodic style, ” His use of compound and subordinate clauses bring us to a sharp conclusion, Also note the parallelism:

“With regard to Spain, that country flourished as a province and has declined as a kingdom” ch.
. Do you see the point flourished and counterpoint declined

Gibbon describes the prosperous condition of the Roman Empire at the end of thend century and deduces the causes of its decline ch.
. On a sublevel he is showing England the superiority of a life of virtue, which leads to public liberty.


Romes problems are caused by her success, and especially as that success brings luxury, As Gibbon notes later on, “The simplicity of Roman manners was insensibly corrupted by the stately affectation of the courts in Asia.
The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by the despotism of the emperors” ch.
.

Look for the historians assertions, Gibbon asserts that the Church grew because ofintolerant zealdoctrine of a future life,testimony of miraclespure morals andunion of the Christian republic ch.
.

Gibbon asserts an implicit return to the morals and virtues of a free Republic, Obviously, this cannot be of Rome, so is he asking what would it look like of England

As a classical liberal, Gibbon prizes liberty above all else.


Gibbon doesnt say Christianity caused the Roman Empire to fall, Rather, it hastened its demise, This is correct. A more immediate answer is that success brings decadence and few men are virtuous enough to resist degeneration.
He notes of the Byzantine emperors fall from the original ideal that “the form of government was a pure and simple monarchy the name of the Roman Republic, which so long preserved a faint tradition of freedom, was confined to the Latin provinces and the princes of Constantinople measured their greatness by the servile obedience of their people.
They were ignorant how much this passive disposition enervates and degrades every faculty of mind, They were equally incapable of guarding their lives and fortunes from the assaults of the Barbarians” ch.
.

What of Gibbons skeptical remarks and his notorious comments on homoousion Take them for what they are worth.
You arent going to Gibbon for conciliar theologybut even regarding the church he isnt always wrong, His comments on monasticism are quite funny,

This is a book you read off and on for aboutyears, Let his prose penetrate your entire being, Its no accident that all of the theologians of theth century, almost all of them fair rhetoricians, schooled themselves on Gibbon.








The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a sixvolume work by the English historian Edward Gibbon.
It traces Western civilization from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium,

Volume I was published inand went through six printings,

Volumes II and III were published in,

Volumes IV, V, and VI in,

The six volumes cover the history, fromto, of the Roman Empire, the history of early Christianity and then of the Roman State Church, and the history of Europe, and discusses the decline of the Roman Empire among other things.


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خوانش: روز بیست و ششم ماه می سالمیلادی

عنوان: انحطاط و سقوط امپراتوری روم اثر: ادوارد گیبون مترجم: ابوالقاسم طاهری چاپ نخست سالکتابهای جیبی نشر فرانکلین چاپ دیگر تهران سازمان انتشارات و آموزش انقلاب اسلامی سالدرص نقشه چاپ سوم انتشارات علمی فرهنگی سالدرص موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیا سدهم

این کتاب را با ترجمه بانو فرنگیس شادمان نمازی بنگاه ترجمه و نشر کتاب نیز در سه جلد و در سالهایتا سالهجری خورشیدی منتشر کرده اند

نویسنده ی بریتانیایی کتاب تاریخ انحطاط و سقوط امپراتوری روم یا انحطاط و سقوط امپراتوری روم ادوارد گیبون در این کتاب خویش به امپراتوری روم از سالهای پایانی سده ی نخست میلادی تا فروپاشی امپراتوری روم شرقی میپردازند نسخه اصلی کتاب در شش جلد منتشر شده است که جلد نخست آن: در سالمیلادی جلدهای دوم و سوم در سالمیلادی و جلدهای چهارم پنجم و ششم: در سالهایمیلادی تا سالمیلادی منتشر شده اند

این اثر به امپراتوری روم اروپا و کلیسای کاتولیک از سالمیلادی تا سالمیلادی میپردازد و درباره ی فروپاشی امپراتوری روم در شرق و غرب گفتگو میکند به سبب هویت اثر و استفاده ی بسیار از منابع نخستین روششناسی به کار گرفته شده در این اثر در آن زمان مدلی برای تاریخدانان پس از ایشان شد و ادوارد گیبون به نخستین تاریخ نگار مدرن روم باستان نامدار شدند

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