Search Results for: The Modern Cultural Myth Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

This book investigates the ‘decline and fall’ of Rome as perceived and imagined in aspects of British and American culture and thought from the late ninetee

Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only histori

What went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: “If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this.” —Thomas E. Rick

An historical survey of Rome and her Empire from 30 B.C. to 476 A.D., five hundred years during which the Heritage of Roman law and Christianity developed and s

In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myth