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Re: Missing History Books
« Reply #30 on: October 31, 2011, 05:39:27 pm »
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Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire has a large section on the ERE/Byzantines.

eh it only goes up to the collapse of the western empire i believe. I doubt it covers the march to the west by justinian or the subsequent declines and revivals that the Byzantines experienced

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Re: Missing History Books
« Reply #31 on: October 31, 2011, 07:16:04 pm »
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eh it only goes up to the collapse of the western empire i believe. I doubt it covers the march to the west by justinian or the subsequent declines and revivals that the Byzantines experienced
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Re: Missing History Books
« Reply #32 on: October 31, 2011, 08:36:35 pm »
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My version has it.

one of the criticism of Gibbon is that he was poor in dealing with the byzantine empire, attributing to him the decline in scholarly research into Byzantines in the 19th century. I haven't read to so i cannot make value judgement on it however. I think that as far as sources go, Gibbons is not a good one for the Byzantine Empire.