About Book:
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six volumes. The books cover the period of the Roman Empire after Marcus Aurelius, from 180 to 1453. They take as their material the behavior and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for thy the Roman Empire fell,
Edward Gibbon is sometimes called the first “modern historian of ancient Rome.” By virtue of its mostly objective approach and highly accurate use of reference material, Gibbon’s works was adopted as a model for the methodologies of 19th and 20th century historians. Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written source, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th
