Re:The Last Day of Constantinople
by WillPostForFood on Monday June 26, 2023 @07:32PM
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Most complaints these days about Gibbon are more about the Enlightenment era biases and tone. We have an additional 250 years of research and archaeology of the Roman Empire to build more facts, but Gibbon is still worthy and informative.
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