* When his own honesty was challenged by his contemporaries, Gibbon appealed to the chapter heading — not the text — in Eusebius ' Praeparatio evangelica ( xii, 31 ), which says how fictions ( pseudos )— which Gibbon rendered ' falsehoods '— may be a " medicine ", which may be " lawful and fitting " to use.

In his History of the Wars, Procopius mentions a story ( which Gibbon disbelieved ) where, on hearing the news that Rome had " perished ", Honorius was initially shocked ; thinking the news was in reference to a favorite chicken he had named " Roma ".

Often called " the first modern historian ", the English scholar Edward Gibbon wrote his magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1776 – 1788 ).

Hadrian is considered by many historians to have been wise and just: Schiller called him " the Empire's first servant ", and British historian Edward Gibbon admired his " vast and active genius ", as well as his " equity and moderation ".

Orestes, however, refused to become emperor, " from some secret motive ", according to historian Edward Gibbon.

Although Edward Gibbon pioneered the description of the Diocletianic government as a " new empire ", he never used the term.

In losing your faith you will lose your city ", and so on ( quoted by Gibbon, ibid., ed.

" The English historian Edward Gibbon, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, referred to the practice as " a painful and often dangerous rite ", and a " singular mutilation " practiced only by Jews and Turks.

The northern Protestants now worked a role reversal: if the language was " corrupt " it must be symptomatic of a corrupt society, which indubitably led to a " decline and fall ", as Edward Gibbon put it, of imperial society.

Gibbon remarked that " the soldiers ' pay was lavished on the useless multitudes of both sexes who could only plead the merits of abstinence and chastity ", though there are no figures for the monks and nuns nor for their maintenance costs.

In Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire III p99 Gibbon made reference to Burnet's De Statu Mortuorum et Resurgentium noting that Burnet " exposes the inconveniences which must arise ", if souls " possess a more active and sensible existence.

His Remarks on Ecclesiastical History ( 5 vols, 1751 ‑ 73 ), has been labelled " the most significant Anglican ecclesiastical history of the eighteenth century "; written " from a markedly latitudinarian perspective ", it was respected by Gibbon.

* Edward Gibbon, " General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West ", from the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.

* " Funky Gibbon ", a song by The Goodies

In summing up these events, Caesar Baronius called Arnold " the father of political heresies ", while the Protestant view is expressed by Edward Gibbon, who found that " the trumpet of Roman liberty was first sounded by Arnold.

Gibbon attributes the betrothal to " the agreement of the three females who governed the Roman world ", meaning Galla Placidia, her niece Pulcheria, and Pulcheria's sister-in-law Eudocia.

English historians preferred to use Roman terminology ( Edward Gibbon used it in a particularly belittling manner ), while French historians preferred to call it Greek .< ref > Edward Gibbon " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ", Alexandre Rambeau, " L ' empire Grecque au X < sup > e </ sup > siecle "</ ref > The term reappeared in the mid-19th century and has since dominated completely in historiography, even in Greece, despite objections from Constantine Paparregopoulos, Gibbon's influential Greek counterpart, that the empire should be called Greek.

Their homeland, defined by Edward Gibbon as " the inland regions of Silesia and Lesser Poland ", has occasionally been referred to as White Croatia.

Adelaide was established as a planned colony of free immigrants, promising civil liberties and freedom from religious persecution, based upon the ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield.

This was the derivation of Alemanni used by Edward Gibbon, in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and by the anonymous contributor of notes assembled from the papers of Nicolas Fréret, published in 1753, who noted that it was the name used by outsiders for those who called themselves the Suevi.

According to Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, during the shifting of offices that took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped he would be promoted from a mere commander to the rank of general in one of the regular armies.

Therefore, while Gibbon was pointing out what he perceived as a flaw in Eusebius's work, he also paid him a compliment, where by calling him ' grave ' he was ascribing the quality of sternness and a lack of credulity when it came to sifting out the fantastical from the reliable historical sources.

The family Hominidae, or Great Apes, diverged from the Hylobatidae ( Gibbon ) family, and around, the Ponginae ( orangutans ), diverged from the Hominidae family.

Edward Gibbon, in his classic The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, discusses the topic in considerable detail in his famous Chapter Fifteen, summarizing the historical causes of the early success of Christianity as follows: "( 1 ) The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal of the Christians, derived, it is true, from the Jewish religion, but purified from the narrow and unsocial spirit which, instead of inviting, had deterred the Gentiles from embracing the law of Moses.

According to Byzantine chronicles, on his abdication he achieved some degree of anecdotal fame by crying out the verse from Ecclesiastes, ' Vanity of vanities, all is vanity ' during Justinian's triumph in Contstantinople .< ref > Edward Gibbon,

In the view of Dio Cassius, a contemporary observer, his accession marked the descent " from a kingdom of gold to one of rust and iron "— a famous comment which has led some historians, notably Edward Gibbon, to take Commodus ' reign as the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire.

The first camp essentially agrees with Gibbon, and the other argues that the Battle has been massively overstated — turned from a raid in force to an invasion, and from a mere annoyance to the Caliph to a shattering defeat that helped end the Islamic Expansion Era.

William E. Watson, strongly supports Tours as a macrohistorical event, but distances himself from the rhetoric of Gibbon and Drubeck, writing, for example, of the battle's importance in Frankish, and world, history in 1993:

The Rhine frontier having been depleted of forces in order to defend Italy, leaving it defended by “ only the faith of the Germans and the ancient terror of the Roman name ,” as Gibbon put it, a massive number of Vandals, Alans, and Suevi from central Europe crossed the frozen-over and poorly-defended Rhine on 31 December 406.

Further exploration of the Amazon Basin and the economy of trade in various species of the bark in 18th century is captured by the extract from a book by Lardner Gibbon:

Gibbon figurines as old as from the fourth to third centuries BCE ( the Zhou Dynasty ) have been found in China.

Edward Gibbon remarked that " Perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood.

Addressing Attila's fearsome reputation, and the importance of this battle, Gibbon noted that it was from his enemies we hear of his terrible deeds, not from friendly chroniclers, emphasizing that the former had no reason to elevate Attila's reign of terror, and the importance of the Battle of Chalons in proving Attila to be defeatable.

He then wrote many works to defend his new convictions, which differ so much from the earlier conciliatory ones that Allatius thought there must be two people of the same name ( Diatriba de Georgiis in Fabricius-Harles Bibliotheca Græca, X, 760-786 ); to whom Gibbon: " Renaudot has restored the identity of his person, and the duplicity of his character " ( Decline and Fall, lxviii, note 41 ).

Potter concluded that " in the long roll of English historical writing from Clarendon to Trevelyan only Gibbon has surpassed him in security of reputation and certainty of immortality ".

For example, in his book The Gibbon in China ( 1967 ), he devotes quite a few pages to the gibbon-themed paintings in China in Japan, from the Northern Song Dynasty on.

Edward Gibbon noted that the Roman dictatorship was all the more difficult to bear due to the prior understanding and experience of political freedom-even under such late figures as Commodus, they were so famous for instance, a typical Roman magistrate or professional would be fully educated in all of the civics, ethics and morality that he saw violated all day every day around him, knowing himself to be in grave risk of his life if he raised this as an issue in public.

The traditional interpretation of this period was centered around the idea of decadence from a ' golden age ', classical civilization, after the famous work of Edward Gibbon The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire ( 1779 ).

The name of the town was, around 1849, changed to Port Wakefield, the surname of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a former British Politician who was the driving force behind the colonisation of South Australia.

* Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1896 – 1900 ) — at Online Library of Liberty

Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.

Most historians, including Edward Gibbon, date the defeat at Manzikert as the beginning of the end of the Eastern Roman Empire.

* Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 30 and Chapter 31.

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Edward Gibbon judged Ammianus " an accurate and faithful guide, who composed the history of his own times without indulging the prejudices and passions which usually affect the mind of a contemporary.

Notable 18th-century autobiographies in English include those of Edward Gibbon and Benjamin Franklin.

There was no John XX ; for example, Gibbon refers to the antipope John as John XXII.

Edward Gibbon, for instance, calls the sea by this name throughout The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

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In the 5th century, the Christian historian Socrates Scholasticus described Eusebius as writing for “ rhetorical finish ” and for the “ praises of the Emperor ” rather than the “ accurate statement of facts .” The methods of Eusebius were criticised by Edward Gibbon in the 18th century.

* Edward Gibbon ( 18th century historian ) dismissed his testimony on the number of martyrs and impugned his honesty by referring to a passage in the abbreviated version of the Martyrs of Palestine attached to the Ecclesiastical History, book 8, chapter 2, in which Eusebius introduces his description of the martyrs of the Great Persecution under Diocletian with: " Wherefore we have decided to relate nothing concerning them except the things in which we can vindicate the Divine judgment.

* However, Gibbon also calls Eusebius the ' gravest ' of the ecclesiastical historians: " The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses, that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.

Edward Gibbon ( 27 April 173716 January 1794 ) was an English historian and Member of Parliament.

Edward Gibbon was born in 1737, the son of Edward and Judith Gibbon at Lime Grove, in the town of Putney, Surrey.