The sixth and final volume of Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire carries his monumental narrative to its close. Gibbon recounts the later centuries of the Byzantine Empire, the Crusades, the rise of the Ottoman Turks, and the fall of Constantinople in 1453, before turning to the ruins and revival of Rome itself. This volume brings the great history deep into the medieval world and the threshold of the Renaissance.
Gibbon’s majestic prose and sweeping vision make the decline of the Roman and Byzantine worlds a drama of the first order, illuminating the medieval Mediterranean and the long twilight of the empire. The fall of Constantinople and the fate of Rome form a fitting climax. Readers of history and English prose alike treasure this masterpiece. This free EPUB edition presents the concluding volume of Gibbon’s celebrated history, rich in medieval matter.