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Gibbon and the Eternal Crisis of Rome

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By Shoumojit Banerjee
250 years after its publication, Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire remains the supreme meditation on the mortality of civilisations. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) In the 1980s, German historian Alexander Demandt attempted to catalogue every explanation ever proposed...
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Gibbon and the Eternal Crisis of Rome