Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)

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CHAPTER XXVII
DEATH OF GRATIAN · RUIN OF ARIANISM · ST. AMBROSE · FIRST CIVIL WAR, AGAINST MAXIMUS · CHARACTER, ADMINISTRATION, AND PENANCE OF THEODOSIUS · DEATH OF VALENTINIAN II. · SECOND CIVIL WAR, AGAINST EUGENIUS · DEATH OF THEODOSIUS · CORRUPTION OF TIMES · INFANTRY DISARM

CHAPTER XXVIII
FINAL DESTRUCTION OF PAGANISM · INTRODUCTION OF THE WORSHIP OF SAINTS AND RELICS, AMONG THE CHRISTIANS

CHAPTER XXIX
FINAL DIVISION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE BETWEEN THE SONS OF THEODOSIUS · REIGN OF ARCADIUS AND HONORIUS · ADMINISTRATION OF RUFINUS AND STILICHO · REVOLT AND DEFEAT OF GILDO IN AFRICA · CONDEMNATION BY THE SENATE

CHAPTER XXX
REVOLT OF THE GOTHS · THEY PLUNDER GREECE · TWO GREAT INVASIONS OF ITALY BY ALARIC AND RADAGAISUS · THEY ARE REPULSED BY STILICHO · THE GERMANS OVERRUN GAUL · USURPATION OF CONSTANTINE IN THE WEST · DISGRACE AND DEATH OF STILICHO · HIS MEMORY PERSECUTED · CLAUDIAN

CHAPTER XXXI
INVASION OF ITALY BY ALARIC · MANNERS OF THE ROMAN SENATE AND PEOPLE · ROME IS THRICE BESIEGED AND AT LENGTH PILLAGED BY THE GOTHS · DEATH OF ALARIC · THE GOTHS EVACUATE ITALY · FALL OF CONSTANTINE · GAUL AND SPAIN OCCUPIED BY BARBARIANS · FREEDOM OF BRITAIN

CHAPTER XXXII
ARCADIUS EMPEROR OF THE EAST · ADMINISTRATION AND DISGRACE OF EUTROPIUS · REVOLT OF GAINAS · PERSECUTION OF ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM · THEODOSIUS II. EMPEROR OF THE EAST · HIS SISTER PULCHERIA · HIS WIFE EUDOCIA · THE PERSIAN WAR, AND DIVISION OF ARMENIA · LUSTRE ON DECLINE

CHAPTER XXXIII
DEATH OF HONORIUS · VALENTINIAN III. EMPEROR OF THE WEST · ADMINISTRATION OF HIS MOTHER PLACIDIA · AETIUS AND BONIFACE · THE CONQUEST OF AFRICA BY THE VANDALS

CHAPTER XXXIV
THE CHARACTER, CONQUESTS, AND COURT OF ATTILA, KING OF THE HUNS · DEATH OF THEODOSIUS THE YOUNGER · ELEVATION OF MARCIAN BY PULCHERIA TO THE EMPIRE OF THE EAST

CHAPTER XXXV
INVASION OF GAUL BY ATTILA · HE IS REPULSED BY AETIUS AND THE VISIGOTHS · ATTILA INVADES AND EVACUATES ITALY · THE DEATHS OF ATTILA, AETIUS, AND VALENTINIAN III · SYMPTOMS OF THE RUIN OF THE ROMAN GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER XXXVI
SACK OF ROME BY GENSERIC, KING OF THE VANDALS · HIS NAVAL DEPREDATIONS · SUCCESSION OF THE LAST EMPERORS OF THE WEST, MAXIMUS, AVITUS, MAJORIAN, SEVERUS, ANTHEMIUS, OLYBRIUS, GLYCERIUS, NEPOS, AUGUSTULUS · TOTAL EXTINCTION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE · REIGN AND CHARACTER OF ODOACER, FIRST BARBARIAN KING OF ITALY

CHAPTER XXXVII
ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND EFFECTS OF THE MONASTIC LIFE · CONVERSION OF THE BARBARIANS TO CHRISTIANITY AND ARIANISM · PERSECUTION OF THE VANDALS IN AFRICA · EXTINCTION OF ARIANISM AMONG BARBARIANS · JEWS IN SPAIN

CHAPTER XXXVIII
REIGN AND CONVERSION OF CLOVIS · HIS VICTORIES OVER THE ALEMANNI, BURGUNDIANS, AND VISIGOTHS · ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FRENCH MONARCHY IN GAUL · LAWS OF THE BARBARIANS · STATE OF THE ROMANS · THE VISIGOTHS OF SPAIN · CONQUEST OF BRITAIN BY THE SAXONS · KING ARTHUR

CHAPTER XXXIX
ZENO AND ANASTASIUS, EMPERORS OF THE EAST · BIRTH, EDUCATION, AND FIRST EXPLOITS OF THEODORIC THE OSTROGOTH · HIS INVASION AND CONQUEST OF ITALY · THE GOTHIC KINGDOM OF ITALY · STATE OF THE WEST · MILITARY AND CIVIL GOVERNMENT · THE SENATOR BOETHUS · DEATH OF SYMMACHUS · THE LAST ACTS AND DEATH OF THEODORIC

CHAPTER XL
ELEVATION OF JUSTIN THE ELDER · REIGN OF JUSTINIAN: I. THE EMPRESS THEODORA · II. FACTIONS OF THE CIRCUS, AND SEDITION OF CONSTANTINOPLE · III. TRADE AND MANUFACTURE OF SILK · IV. FINANCES AND TAXES · V. EDIFICES OF JUSTINIAN · CHURCH OF ST. SOPHIA · FORTIFICATION AND FRONTIERS OF EASTERN EMPIRE · ABOLITION OF SCHOOLS OF ATHENS AND THE ROMAN CONSULSHIP BY JUSTINIAN

CHAPTER XLI
CONQUESTS OF JUSTINIAN IN THE WEST · CHARACTER AND FIRST CAMPAIGNS OF BELISARIUS · HE INVADES AND SUBDUES THE VANDAL KINGDOM OF AFRICA · HIS TRIUMPH · THE GOTHIC WAR · HE RECOVERS SICILY, NAPLES, AND ROME · SIEGE OF ROME BY THE GOTHS · THEIR RETREAT AND LOSSES · SURRENDER OF RAVENNA · GLORY OF BELISARIUS · HIS DOMESTIC SHAME AND MISFORTUNES · HIS WIFE ANTONINA

CHAPTER XLII
STATE OF THE BARBARIC WORLD · ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LOMBARDS ON THE DANUBE · TRIBES AND INROADS OF THE SCLAVONIANS · ORIGIN, EMPIRE, AND EMBASSIES OF THE TURKS · THE FLIGHT OF THE AVARS · CHOSROES I. OR NUSHIRVAN KING OF PERSIA · HIS REIGN AND WARS WITH THE ROMANS · THE COLCHIAN OR LAZIC WAR · THE ÆTHIOPIANS

CHAPTER XLIII
REBELLIONS OF AFRICA · RESTORATION OF THE GOTHIC KINGDOM BY TOTILA · LOSS AND RECOVERY OF ROME · FINAL CONQUEST OF ITALY BY NARSES · EXTINCTION OF THE OSTROGOTHS · DEFEAT OF THE FRANKS AND ALEMANNI · LAST VICTORY, DISGRACE, AND DEATH OF BELISARIUS · DEATH AND CHARACTER OF JUSTINIAN · COMET, EARTHQUAKES, PLAGUE

CHAPTER XLIV
IDEA OF THE ROMAN JURISPRUDENCE · THE LAWS OF THE KINGS · THE TWELVE TABLETS OF THE DECEMVIRS · THE LAWS OF THE PEOPLE · THE DECREES OF THE SENATE · THE EDICTS OF THE MAGISTRATES AND EMPERORS · AUTHORITY OF THE CIVILIANS · CODE, PANDECTS, NOVELS, AND INSTITUTES OF JUSTINIAN: · I. RIGHTS OF PERSONS · II. RIGHTS OF THINGS III. PRIVATE INJURY & ACTION · IV. CRIME & PUNISHMENT

CHAPTER XLV
REIGN OF THE YOUNGER JUSTIN · EMBASSY OF THE AVARS · THEIR SETTLEMENT ON THE DANUBE · CONQUEST OF ITALY BY THE LOMBARDS · ADOPTION AND REIGN OF TIDERIUS · OF MAURICE · STATE OF ITALY UNDER THE LOMBARDS AND THE EXARCHS OF RAVENNA · DISTRESS OF ROME · CHARACTER AND PONTIFICATE OF GREGORY THE FIRST · THE SAVIOUR OF ROME

CHAPTER XLVI
REVOLUTIONS OF PERSIA AFTER THE DEATH OF CHOSROES OR NUSHIRVAN · HIS SON HORMOUZ, A TYRANT, IS DEPOSED · USURPATION OF BAHRAM · FLIGHT AND RESTORATION OF CHOSROES II. · HIS GRATITUDE TO THE ROMANS · THE CHAGAN OF THE AVARS · REVOLT OF THE ARMY AGAINST MAURICE · HIS DEATH · TYRANNY OF PHOCAS · ELEVATION OF HERACLIUS · THE PERSIAN WAR · CHOSROES SUBDUES SYRIA, EGYPT, AND ASIA MINOR · SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE BY THE PERSIANS AND AVARS · VICTORIES AND TRIUMPH OF HERACLIUS

CHAPTER XLVII
THEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE INCARNATION · THE HUMAN AND DIVINE NATURE OF CHRIST · ENMITY OF THE PATRIARCHS OF ALEXANDRIA AND CONSTANTINOPLE · ST. CYRIL AND NESTORIUS · THIRD GENERAL COUNCIL OF EPHESUS · HERESY OF EUTYCHES · FOURnI GENERAL COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON · CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL DISCORD · INTOLERANCE OF JUSTINIAN · THE THREE CHAPTERS · THE MONOTHELITE CONTROVERSY · STATE OF THE ORIENTAL SECTS · I. THE NESTORIANS · II. THE JACOBITES · III. THE MARONITES · IV. THE ARMENIANS · V. THE COPTS

CHAPTER XLVIII
CHARACTERS OF THE GREEK EMPERORS OF CONSTANTINOPLE, FROM THE TIME OF HERACLIUS TO THE LATIN CONQUEST