Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Volume Four. Introd. by Christoph

Anmerkung des Verkäufers: Umschl. etwas berieben. - ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND EFFECTS or THE MONASTIC LIFE - CONVERSION OF THE BARBARIANS TO CHRISTIANITY AND ARIANISM - PERSECUTION OF THE VANDALS IN AFRICA - EXTINCTION OF ARIANISM - REIGN AND CONVERSION OF CLOVIS - HIS VICTORIES OVER THE ALEMANNI, BURGUNDIANS, AND VLSI-GOTHS - ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FRENCH MONARCHY IN GAUL - LAWS OF THE BARBARIANS - STATE OF THE ROMANS - THE VISIGOTHS OF SPAIN - CONQUEST OF BRITAIN BY THE SAXONS - ZENO AND ANASTASIUS, EMPERORS OF THE EAST - BIRTH, EDUCATION, AND FIRST EXPLOITS OF THEODORIC THE OSTROGOTH - His INVASION AND CONQUEST OF ITALY - THE GOTHIC KINGDOM OF ITALY - STATE OF THE WEST - MILITARY AND CIVIL GOVERNMENT - THE SENATOR BOETHIUS - LAST ACTS AND DEATH OF THEODORIC - ELEVATION OF JUSTIN THE ELDER - REIGN OF JUSTINIAN - I THE EMPRESS THEODORA - II FACTIONS OF THE CIRCUS, AND SEDITION OF CONSTANTINOPLE - III TRADE AND MANUFACTURE OF SILK - IV FINANCES AND TAXES - V EDIFICES OF JUSTINIAN - CHURCH OF ST SOPHIA - FORTIFICATION