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The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire

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Thomas Hodgkin's The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire was first published under the title: Italy and her Invaders, in six volumes, by The Clarendon Press, between 1880-1899.

From the General Introduction from volume I:

In 1880 Thomas Hodgkin published the first edition of the first two volumes of a projected eight-volume history of the invasions of Italy in the late Roman and early medieval periods. A full nineteen years later, with the appearance of volumes VII and VIII in 1899, he completed his magnum opus, having taken the story from the time of the emperor Valentinian I down to the Frankish invasions of the late eighth century and the death of Charlemagne in 814. In between had appeared two other two-volume sets , along with revised editions of volumes I and II in 1892 and of III and IV in 1896. In its final form, The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire amounted to nearly five thousand pages of text , or well over a million words. Hodgkin had manufactured a great historical classic, a worthy successor to, and in some important ways an advance upon, the work of Edward Gibbon. But Hodgkin was not a professional historian, nor even a professional aithor. How did a Quaker banker, who took his responsibilities as a recognised minister of his faith extremely seriously, come to write one of the great masterpieces of nineteenth-century British historiography?

Language: English

Pages: 3431

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: The Folio Society

Release: May 12, 2022

The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire

4.8/5 ( ratings)

Thomas Hodgkin's The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire was first published under the title: Italy and her Invaders, in six volumes, by The Clarendon Press, between 1880-1899.

From the General Introduction from volume I:

In 1880 Thomas Hodgkin published the first edition of the first two volumes of a projected eight-volume history of the invasions of Italy in the late Roman and early medieval periods. A full nineteen years later, with the appearance of volumes VII and VIII in 1899, he completed his magnum opus, having taken the story from the time of the emperor Valentinian I down to the Frankish invasions of the late eighth century and the death of Charlemagne in 814. In between had appeared two other two-volume sets , along with revised editions of volumes I and II in 1892 and of III and IV in 1896. In its final form, The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire amounted to nearly five thousand pages of text , or well over a million words. Hodgkin had manufactured a great historical classic, a worthy successor to, and in some important ways an advance upon, the work of Edward Gibbon. But Hodgkin was not a professional historian, nor even a professional aithor. How did a Quaker banker, who took his responsibilities as a recognised minister of his faith extremely seriously, come to write one of the great masterpieces of nineteenth-century British historiography?

Language: English

Pages: 3431

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: The Folio Society

Release: May 12, 2022

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