Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume VI
    The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume VI
    The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume VI
    Audiobook28 hours

    The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume VI

    Written by Edward Gibbon

    Narrated by David Timson

    4/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire has always maintained its initial appeal to both the general public and scholars alike. Its sheer scale is daunting, encompassing over a millennium of history, covering not merely the Western Empire from the days of the early emperors to its extinction in AD 476, but also the Eastern Empire, which lasted for another thousand years until the Turks vanquished it in 1453. But Gibbon’s style, part historical fact and part literature, is enticing, and the sheer honesty of the man, who endeavours to be scrupulously impartial in his presentation, endears him to the reader. In this recording, David Timson incorporates the most salient of Gibbon’s footnotes. In Volume VI (Chapters LVII−LXXI), Gibbon ends his masterful history by charting the rise of the Turkish nation and the birth of the Ottoman Empire, which becomes an unstoppable force as it eventually captures the remains of the Eastern Empire. Weakened under the continuing schism of the Greek and Latin Christians, the strategically important site of Constantinople becomes an easy target for Sultan Mohammed II − much to the consternation and apathy of the West.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateOct 14, 2015
    ISBN9781843797265
    The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume VI
    Author

    Edward Gibbon

    Edward Gibbon; (8 May – 16 January 1794) was an English historian, writer and Member of Parliament. His most important work, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788 and is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organised religion. (Wikipedia)

    More audiobooks from Edward Gibbon

    Related authors

    Related to The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume VI

    Related audiobooks

    History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The First Crusade Had Been Defeated?

      Apr 22, 2021

      Professor of Global History at Oxford University, Director of the Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College. Author of The First Crusade: The Call From The East, and The Silk Roads: A New History Of The World Who w

      5 min read

    • Article

      Heirs to Byzantium

      Apr 27, 2023

      LIKE THE TSARS THAT PRECEDED HIM, VLADIMIR Putin regards Russia as the heir to Byzantium, the Orthodox Christian empire that dominated much of Southeastern Europe and the Middle East for a thousand years. He has spoken of Moscow as the Third Rome, th

      8 min read

    • Article

      Our Changing Views On Rome’s Final Days

      Mar 2, 2020

      From Gibbon to the 1960s, the crisis in the third century was thought to herald the end of the Roman west. Apart from political instability and military defeat by Persia, hyper-inflation raged, laws attempted to tie peasants to their lands, and barba

      1 min read

    • Article

      Reviews

      Oct 8, 2020

      Reviews
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Sultans

      Feb 19, 2018

      The Sultans
      2 min read

    • Article

      Divided They Fell

      Nov 24, 2022

      Divided They Fell
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Sultans

      Nov 1, 2018

      The Sultans
      2 min read

    • Article

      Rise & fall

      Oct 24, 2021

      Rise & fall
      2 min read

    • Article

      Mehmed II: The Ottoman Caesar

      Mar 26, 2020

      Mehmed II: The Ottoman Caesar
      8 min read

    • Article

      Procopius Of Caesarea

      Sep 8, 2023

      What followed was nearly three decades of ceaseless war, which would stretch the armed forces and economy of Justinian’s empire to its limits. And yet, despite the great cost, by 565, some of the most economically vital provinces of the old Western R

      2 min read

    • Article

      The World Of Louis Ix

      May 5, 2023

      Louis IX, who came to the throne twelve years later, was heir to these developments, and he reigned for the better part of half a century, during the most vibrant decades of the thirteenth century. His reign, initially aided by the regency of his for

      11 min read

    • Article

      A Clash Of Civilisations?

      May 14, 2020

      A Clash Of Civilisations?
      7 min read

    • Article

      Rebuilding A Monarchy And A Nation

      Sep 29, 2022

      THE REVERED SOVEREIGN’S DEATH was announced in the evening. The daily anxieties of the people and the press’s usual reporting on quotidian political strife temporarily evaporated on contact with the momentous royal bereavement. Though long anticipate

      8 min read

    • Article

      Byzantine Empire

      Jan 20, 2022

      Byzantine Empire
      3 min read

    • Article

      Reviews

      Feb 24, 2022

      Reviews
      6 min read

    • Article

      Also On The Bookshelf

      Mar 19, 2020

      As the daughter of Henry I, Matilda had a strong claim to the English throne. But the nation was thrown into chaos when she became embroiled in a long and bitter fight for the crown with her cousin, Stephen. This fast-moving biography of one of the m

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Rise Of The Modern Historical Profession

      Sep 7, 2021

      It is really very striking how little was written in English, until quite recently, on the history of medieval warfare. Before the late nineteenth century there was a good deal of writing about war, but little was about medieval history. The Classica

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Great Unravelling

      Dec 28, 2022

      The Great Unravelling
      3 min read

    • Article

      The End Of Empire

      Jun 17, 2020

      The End Of Empire
      8 min read

    • Article

      BOOKS & PODCASTS

      Nov 25, 2021

      BOOKS & PODCASTS
      2 min read

    • Article

      Reaching Verdicts

      Aug 7, 2018

      Reaching Verdicts
      8 min read

    • Article

      Gods Among Men

      Apr 14, 2022

      Gods Among Men
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Past Is A Foreign Country

      Jan 26, 2022

      Penelope Corfield (Yale University Press £25) PENELOPE CORFIELD has set herself an ambitious task: how to distil the complex, overarching narratives of the British-Irish 18th century—from shifting dynasties, multiple national identities and parliam

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Enemy Within

      Mar 2, 2020

      The Enemy Within
      6 min read

    Reviews for The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume VI

    4/5

    20 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 2/5
      Wrapup of the previous five books, including an extensive index.
    • 5/5
      What an amazing books. loved to read them. all of them. feel myself a richest person. the amount of things i discovery, the amount of new books i mark as "want to read", it is amazing how a single work can be the inspiration of so much. I’m looking at the books, remembering so many stories, so many characters, so many big events, so many places and feel a certain nostalgy, like if this is also the story of my life of the life of my people… I let the imagination fly and thing about that my family members were doing in those times, and where and that precious to have this sense of common ground, common history together.