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1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 15 min.)) : digital. |
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Great Courses Audio ; |
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Damrosch, Leo.
Great Courses Audio. Spoken word ;
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Great Courses.
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Narrated by Leo Damrosch. |
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In Books That Matter: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Professor Damrosch invites you on a riveting, 24-lecture examination of this great work from multiple perspectives; as a vast historical chronicle, as a compelling masterpiece of literature, as a sharp commentary on cultural mores, and as a cautionary tale to Enlightenment Europe. An engaging, chapter-by-chapter guide to the Decline and Fall, Professor Damrosch's course helps you navigate the book's themes, structure, philosophies, background, and lasting influence. Whether you've read the book before and are looking for new ways to think about it, or whether you've always wanted to read it but never knew where to start, Professor Damrosch's lectures are a fascinating, rewarding, and authoritative guide to the enduring legacy of a once-mighty empire-and the great book that became its eulogy and epitaph. All Lectures: 1. The Greatness of Gibbon's Decline and Fall 2. The Making of Gibbon the Historian 3. The Empire at Its Beginning 4. The Theory and Practice of History 5. The Golden Age of the Antonines 6. The Hidden Poison Begins to Work 7. Diocletian and the Triumph of Constantine 8. Enlightenment Skepticism 9. The Rise of Christianity 10. Constantine and Athanasius 11. Julian and the Return to Paganism 12. Barbarian Advances and Theodosius 13. East and West Divided 14. Huns and Vandals 15. Theodoric and Justinian 16. The Breakup of the Empire 17. The Byzantine Empire and Charlemagne 18. The Rise of Islam 19. The Byzantine Empire in the 10th Century 20. The Crusades 21. Genghis Khan and Tamerlane 22. The Fall of Constantinople 23. The End of Gibbon's Work 24. Decline and Fall in Modern Perspective |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794. History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
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Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. -- Historiography.
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Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527 -- Historiography.
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Damrosch, Leo. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781682768754 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1682768759 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT12329194 |
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