After we complete our three-part chat about Tacitus (The Agricola & The Gemania) and Peter Wells (The Barbarians Speak) this coming Wednesday, we return to Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on November 15.
Chapters XVII to XXI:
Constantine and his family down to Julian's time in Gaul (359); religious controversies. Some people might want to skip Chapter XXI, see below.
Bingley’s comment on this:
The section on Julian is mainly a summary of Ammianus, whom we read, through the Julian novel, quite recently, so [people who participated in that chat] might want to do some judicious skipping here .
Bingley has already blogged about resources on Constantine.
Various Gibbon editions. Gibbon’s autobiographies in one book:
December 6 and 13, with a bow to the busy holiday season – and because we deserve it ;-) – will be light reading from Gillian Bradshaw:
