The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Abridged Edition

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Recounts the events that led to the fall of the Roman Empire, from the second century A.D. to the fifteenth century A.D.

Hans-Friedrich Mueller is the William D. Williams Professor of Classics at Union College in Schenectady, New York, and the author of Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus. Daniel J. Boorstin, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Librarian of Congress emeritus, is the author of many books, including The Creators and The Discoverers.

"[Gibbon] stood on the summit of the Renaissance achievement and looked back over the waste of history to ancient Rome, as from one mountain top to another."-Christopher Dawson