Tag: Decline and Fall
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Edward Gibbon’s Genius Moment on 15 October 1764
All great things have a moment of conception, a single point in time when the light comes on and an idea is born. I call this a Genius Moment. Edward Gibbon had one, resulting in his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Read on, Macduff!
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250 Years since Gibbon’s Masterpiece The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
On Tuesday 17 February it will be the 250th anniversary of a masterpiece in scholarship and literature, a book, or rather a work in six volumes, which many will know, but only a few have read. Of course…you all knew! It’s Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,…