<p>Join a Harvard professor to examine the meaning and impact of Edward Gibbon's masterpiece.</p>
Books That Matter: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: The Greatness of Gibbon's Decline and Fall
- 02: The Making of Gibbon the Historian
- 03: The Empire at Its Beginning
- 04: The Theory and Practice of History
- 05: The Golden Age of the Antonines
- 06: The Hidden Poison Begins to Work
- 07: Diocletian and the Triumph of Constantine
- 08: Enlightenment Skepticism
- 09: The Rise of Christianity
- 10: Constantine and Athanasius
- 11: Julian and the Return to Paganism
- 12: Barbarian Advances and Theodosius
- 13: East and West Divided
- 14: Huns and Vandals
- 15: Theodoric and Justinian
- 16: The Breakup of the Empire
- 17: The Byzantine Empire and Charlemagne
- 18: The Rise of Islam
- 19: The Byzantine Empire in the 10th Century
- 20: The Crusades
- 21: Genghis Khan and Tamerlane
- 22: The Fall of Constantinople
- 23: The End of Gibbon's Work
- 24: Decline and Fall in Modern Perspective
Taught by
Leo Damrosch
