The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire IV

This volume narrates the fifth-century unravelling of Roman power in the West. Gibbon follows Alaric and the sack of Rome, the Vandal occupation of Africa, Attila's campaigns, and the succession of weak emperors and barbarian kingmakers that ends in the deposition of the last Western emperor. He also treats monasticism, the Eastern court, and the settlement of Germanic peoples inside former provinces. The book is a political and military history of the fall of the Western Empire, not a social history of everyday survival after 476.

Bound in dark red-brown buckram decorated in gold. Map endleaves. Pale yellow-brown slipcase.