 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a magisterial history of Rome, from its beginnings through to the fall of the Byzantine Empire. It's considered to be one of the greatest works written during the enlightenment, and due to Gibbon's relatively modern approach, its methodology became a model for future historians.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a book of history written by the English historian Edward Gibbon, which traces the trajectory of the Roman Empire and Western civilization as a whole from the late first century AD to the fall of the Eastern or Byzantine Empire. Published in six volumes, volume I was published in 1776 and went through six printings. Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV, V, VI in 1788-89. The original volumes were published in quarto sections, a common publishing practice of the time. The work covers the history of the Roman Empire, Europe, and the Catholic Church from 98 to 1590 and discusses the decline of the Roman Empire in the East and West. Because of its relative objectivity and heavy use of primary sources, at the time its methodology became a model for later historians. This led to Gibbon being called the first "modern historian of ancient Rome".
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