Is Edward Gibbon’s ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ Worth Reading Today?

Even if you know nothing else about the historiography of the late Roman Empire, there is one work of scholarship on the subject that you’ve probably heard of: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, which was originally published in six volumes from 1776 to 1789. At the time, it was … Continue reading "Is Edward Gibbon’s ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ Worth Reading…