Displaying 1 of 1 2017 Format: DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials, Electronic Resources Title: Books that matter : the history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Publisher, Date: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., ©2017. ©2017 Description: 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm). Summary: Unravel Gibbon's seminal Decline and Fall with an award-winning Harvard professor. Series: The great courses. Philosophy, Intellectual history Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history. Subjects: Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794. History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Rome -- Civilization. Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. Europe -- History -- 392-814. Genre: Filmed lectures. Educational films. Nonfiction films. Other Author: Damrosch, Leopold, teacher. Teaching Company. Other Title: History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire Notes: Title from disc surface. Course no. 3450. Lecturer: Professor Leo Damrosch, Harvard U niversity. DVD. Contents: The greatness of Gibbon's Decline and fall -- The making of Gibbon the Historian -- The Empire at its beginning -- The theory and practice of history -- The Golden Age of the Antonines -- The hidden poison begins to work -- Diocletian and the triumph of Constantine -- Enlightenment skepticism -- The rise of Christianity -- Constantine and Athanasius -- Julian and the return to Paganism -- East and West divided -- Huns and vandals -- Theodoric and Justinian -- The breakup of the Empire -- The Byzantine Empire and Charlemagne -- The rise of Islam -- The Byzantine Empire in the 10th century -- The Crusades -- Genghis Khan and Tamerlane -- The fall of Constantinople -- The end of Gibbon's work -- Decline and fall in moden perspective. ISBN: 1629973793 9781501965449 1501965441 9781629973791 Publisher Number: 3450 Other Number: 981768397 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 654474 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: GREAT DVD 937.06 Books th Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
