Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is ...

Daedalus, Vol. 105, No. 3, Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Summer, 1976), pp. 189-207 (19 pages) ...

Daedalus, Vol. 105, No. 3, Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Summer, 1976), pp. 153-169 (17 pages) ...

The melding of politics and religion has also been blamed for much historical strife — Edward Gibbon famously blamed the fall of the Roman Empire in part on the rise of Christianity. However ...

Beloved historian Tom Holland details the bloody and dramatic fall of the Roman ... not for the faint of heart, Edward Gibbon’s six-volume history of the Roman Empire remains the most expansive ...