The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

::This is about the book. For the historical event see Decline of the Roman Empire

References

Note: Gibbon continued to revise and change his work even after publication; the complexities of the problem are addressed in the foreword of the Womersley edition.

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• In-print complete editions
• J.B. Bury, editor, 7 volumes (London:Methuen, 1909-1914), currently reprinted by AMS Press. Until the Womersley edition, this was the essential version, but now almost one hundred years old, the historical analysis commentary is not the latest. ISBN 0809592355 (v.1) ISBN 0809592363 (v.2) ISBN 0809592371 (v.3) ISBN 080959238X (v.4) ISBN 0809592398 (v.5) ISBN 0809592401 (v.6) ISBN 080959241X (v.7)
• D. Womersley, editor, 3 volumes (London:Penguin Books, 1994). The current essential version, it is the most faithful to Gibbon's original words; alas, the ancient Greek quotations are not as good as in Bury, a minor quibble for an otherwise excellent work with complete footnotes, and bibliographical information for Gibbons cryptic footnote notations, plus an index, and a copy of Vindication (1799) which Gibbon wrote in response to his description of the rise of Christianity. ISBN 0713991240
• In-print abridgements
• D. Womersley, editor, 1 volume (London:Penguin Books, 2000). Includes in complete entirety, including all footnotes, eleven of the original seventy-one chapters. ISBN 0140437649
• Hans-Friedrich Mueller, editor, 1 volume (Random House, 2003). Includes excerpts from all seventy-one chapters, it eliminates footnotes, geographic surveys, details of battle formations, long narratives of military campaigns, ethnographies and genealogies, but keeps the narrative start to finish. Based on the Rev. H.H. Milman edition of 1845 (See also Gutenburg etext edition). ISBN 0375758119
• Bibliography
• Cosgrove, Peter. Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." 1999. Newark: Associated University Presses. ISBN 087413658X
• Gay, Peter. Style in History (1974). New York: Basic Books. ISBN 0465083048
• Pocock, J.G.A. Barbarism and Religion (1999). New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521633451 (v.1) ISBN 0521640024 (v.2)