Seven large German-speaking tribes – the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Burgundians, Lombards, Saxons and Franks – moved west and took part in the Decline of the Roman Empire and transformation of the old Western Roman Empire.

Lemmy also appears briefly, but with some confiding words, in the Penelope Spheeris film " The Decline of the Western Civilization, Part II ".

* 1988 The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years

Penelope Spheeris ' first installment of the three-part documentary " The Decline of Western Civilization " ( 1981 ) details extensive footage of the early Los Angeles punk scene through interviews and early concert footage from Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Germs, Fear, and Catholic Discipline, among others.

The third installment of " The Decline of Western Civilization III " explores the gutter punk lifestyle in the 1990s.

Francis A. Schaeffer, an American theologian based in Switzerland, seizing upon the exclusion of the divine from most humanist writings, argued that rampant secular humanism would lead to moral relativism and ethical bankruptcy in his book How Should We Then Live: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture ( 1976 ).

They released only one album, 1979's ( GI ) ( produced by Joan Jett ) and were featured the following year in Penelope Spheeris ' documentary film The Decline of Western Civilization, which chronicled the Los Angeles punk movement.

The Germs are featured in Penelope Spheeris's documentary film The Decline of Western Civilization along with X, Black Flag, Fear, Circle Jerks, Alice Bag Band, and Catholic Discipline.

* The Decline of Western Civilization LP, 1980, Slash Records

Spengler's Decline of the West ( 2 vol 1919 – 1922 ) compared nine organic cultures: Egyptian ( 3400 BC-1200 BC ), Indian ( 1500 BC-1100 BC ), Chinese ( 1300 BC-AD 200 ), Classical ( 1100 BC-400 BC ), Byzantine ( AD 300 – 1100 ), Aztec ( AD 1300 – 1500 ), Arabian ( AD 300 – 1250 ), Mayan ( AD 600 – 960 ), and Western ( AD 900 – 1900 ).

* 1981 – The Decline of Western Civilization

This group of bands was featured in Penelope Spheeris ' 1981 documentary The Decline of Western Civilization.

* Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter XXXVI " Total Extinction Of The Western Empire ".

Oswald Spengler in his book The Decline of the West ( 1918 ) presented Western civilization as ' Faustian ', striving to attain the infinite, in contrast with antiquity which he took to be ' Apollonian '.

With Reyes, Black Flag recorded the Jealous Again 12-inch EP and appeared in the film The Decline of Western Civilization.

The track appearing on the CD release of the EP was recorded during the Rage For Order sessions ( and is not the same version of the song which appears on the soundtrack for the movie, The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years ).

Examples of this early moshing can be seen in the documentaries Another State of Mind, Urban Struggle, The Decline of Western Civilization, and American Hardcore, as well as footage from the shows of the era.

The 1988 film The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years captured the Los Angeles scene of successful and aspiring bands.

The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture.

She is best known as a documentary film director whose works include the trilogy titled The Decline of Western Civilization.

* Thompson, E. A. Romans and Barbarians: The Decline of the Western Empire.

The famous movie about the hardcore scene, The Decline of Western Civilization, was shot in this area, largely in an abandoned church in Hermosa called the Creative Craft Center.

The Germs can be seen in the 1981 film The Decline of Western Civilization, directed by Penelope Spheeris.

The " Decline " is largely concerned with comparisons between the Classical and Western cultures, but some examples are taken from the Arabian, Chinese, and Egyptian formations.

After several other publications, some reflecting his interest in and knowledge of continental Europe, Bowdler's last work was an expurgated version of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published posthumously in 1826 under the supervision of his nephew and biographer, Thomas Bowdler the Younger.

* Rise and Decline of the Third Reich ( Avalon Hill, 1974 )-The first serious attempt to model WWII in Europe in its entirety, including ( in a limited way ) the economic and industrial production of the nations involved.

* Geoff Eley-" Do It Yourself Politics ( DIY )", Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000, chapter 27: " The Center and the Margins: Decline or Renewal ?.

* Europe: Grandeur and Decline, 1967.

The Decline of Fertility in Europe, ( 1986 )

* Decline and Rise of Europe: A Study in Recent History, With Particular Emphasis on the Development of a European Consciousness ( Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, 1965 ).

*" The Brothers Karamazov, or The Decline of Europe " ( 1919 )

" The Brothers Karamazov, or The Decline of Europe " and " Thoughts on The Idiot by Dostoevsky " were translated to English by Sydney Schiff and published in 1923 under the title In Sight of Chaos.

& Roy Treadway, ( 1986 ): The Decline of Fertility in Europe, Princeton University Press.

( 1986 ) The Gregs of Quarry Bank Mill: The Rise and Decline of the Family Firm, 1750 – 1914

( 1986 ) The Gregs of Quarry Bank Mill: The Rise and Decline of the Family Firm, 1750 – 1914 ISBN 0-521-32382-7

The Decline of Jute: Managing Industrial Decline ( London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011 ) 219 pp. 978 – 1-84893-124-4.

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 ).

The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914 – 1938 ( The Cambridge History of Modern France ) ( 1988 ) excerpt and text search

* 1764 – Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

* Oswald Spengler, German ; Decline of the West ( 1918 – 22 )

The Decline of the West ( 1918 – 22 ) vol 1 online ; vol 2 online ; excerpt and text search, abridged edition

* 1776 – 1789: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was published by Edward Gibbon

* October 15 – English scholar Edward Gibbon conceives the idea of writing The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire " as I sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol ".

* 1800 BCE – 1700 BCE: Decline of the Indus Valley Civilization

* Marshall W. Baldwin, " The Decline and Fall of Jerusalem, 1174 – 1189.

* ' The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936 – 1945, Pulitzer Prize winning account by John Toland

* J. H. Elliot, The Revolt of the Catalans: A Study in the Decline of Spain, 1598 – 1640.

#" Steady Decline " – 4: 13 ( Kirkland, Victor )

Evelyn Waugh ( 1903 – 66 ) satirised the " bright young things " of the 1920s and 1930s, notably in A Handful of Dust ( 1934 ), and Decline and Fall ( 1928 ), while Brideshead Revisited ( 1945 ) has a theological basis, setting out to examine the effect of divine grace on its main characters.