The decline and fall of the Roman Empire / Gibbon, Edward

Presents volume four of the six-volume series on the fall of the Roman Empire and contains chapters thirty-seven through forty-six beginning with the institution of the Monastic Life to the siege of Constantinople by the Persians.

The first in a three-volume history of the Roman Empire, originally published between 1776 and 1788, following the conduct and collapse of the late empire from the second century to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Includes notes and a chronology.