TY - BOOK AU - Gibbon,Edward AU - Milman,Henry Hart TI - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 AV - DG PY - 2008/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D KW - Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527 N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire; Release date is 2008-06-07; David Reed and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3" by Edward Gibbon is a historical work published in 1781. This volume continues Gibbon's monumental examination of Rome's collapse, tracing the empire from its zenith through early Christianity's rise, the Western Empire's fall, and beyond. Written with detached yet critical prose, Gibbon explores how civic virtue eroded and barbarian invasions succeeded. His controversial thesis about Christianity's role sparked immediate debate, while his Enlightenment perspective dismissed the Middle Ages as a superstitious Dark Age awaiting reason's return. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/733 ER -