Podcast Episodes featuring Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon

In Our Time: History - June 17, 2021 09:15 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of one of the great historians, best known for his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (published 1776-89). According to Gibbon (1737-94) , the idea for this work came to him on 15th of October 1764 as he sat musing amidst the ru...