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Title: The Historians' History of the World in Twenty-Five Volumes, Volume 7

       The History of the Later Roman Empire

Author: Various

Editor: Henry Smith Williams

Release Date: March 26, 2019 [EBook #59134]

Language: English

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THE HISTORIANS’ HISTORY OF THE WORLD

GIBBON

THE HISTORIANS’

HISTORY

OF THE WORLD

A comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations

as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of

all ages: edited, with the assistance of a distinguished

board of advisers and contributors,

by

HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS, LL.D.

IN TWENTY-FIVE VOLUMES

VOLUME VII—THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE

T^he Outlook Company

New York

T^he History Association

London

1904

Copyright, 1904,

By HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS.

All rights reserved.

Press of J. J. Little & Co.

New York, U. S. A.

Contributors, and Editorial Revisers.

Prof. Adolf Erman, University of Berlin.

Prof. Joseph Halévy, College of France.

Prof. Thomas K. Cheyne, Oxford University.

Prof. Andrew C. McLaughlin, University of Michigan.

Prof. David H. Müller, University of Vienna.

Prof. Alfred Rambaud, University of Paris.

Capt. F. Brinkley, Tokio.

Prof. Eduard Meyer, University of Berlin.

Dr. James T. Shotwell, Columbia University.

Prof. Theodor Nöldeke, University of Strasburg.

Prof. Albert B. Hart, Harvard University.

Dr. Paul Brönnle, Royal Asiatic Society.

Dr. James Gairdner, C.B., London.

Prof. Ulrich von Wilamowitz Möllendorff, University of Berlin.

Prof. H. Marnali, University of Budapest.

Dr. G. W. Botsford, Columbia University.

Prof. Julius Wellhausen, University of Göttingen.

Prof. Franz R. von Krones, University of Graz.

Prof. Wilhelm Soltau, Zabern University.

Prof. R. W. Rogers, Drew Theological Seminary.

Prof. A. Vambéry, University of Budapest.

Prof. Otto Hirschfeld, University of Berlin.

Dr. Frederick Robertson Jones, Bryn Mawr College.

Baron Bernardo di San Severino Quaranta, London.

Dr. John P. Peters, New York.

Dr. S. Rappoport, School of Oriental Languages, Paris.

Prof. Hermann Diels, University of Berlin.

Prof. C. W. C. Oman, Oxford University.

Prof. I. Goldziher, University of Vienna.

Prof. W. L. Fleming, University of West Virginia.

Prof. R. Koser, University of Berlin.

PART XI

THE HISTORY OF THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE

BASED CHIEFLY UPON THE FOLLOWING AUTHORITIES

AGATHIAS, AMMIANUS, AUGUSTAN HISTORY, J. B. BURY, HENRY FYNES CLINTON,

GEORGIUS CEDRENUS, ANNA COMNENA, DION CASSIUS, MICHAEL DUCAS,

EINHARD (EGINHARD), EUTROPIUS, GEORGE FINLAY, HEINRICH

GELZER, EDWARD GIBBON, FRIEDRICH WILHELM

BENJAMIN VON GIESEBRECHT,

FERDINAND GREGOROVIUS, G. F. HERTZBERG, THOMAS HODGKIN, JORDANES

(JORNANDES), JOANNES MALALAS, PROCOPIUS, L. VON RANKE,

STRABO, TACITUS, VELLEIUS, GEORG WEBER,

JOANNES ZONARAS, ZOSIMUS

TOGETHER WITH

A SURVEY OF THE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES

BY

JAMES T. SHOTWELL

WITH ADDITIONAL CITATIONS FROM

SIGURD ABEL, JOHANN CHRISTOPH ADELUNG, AGOBARD, ANASTASIUS, ANNALES

FULDENSES, ANNALES METTENSES, BARONIUS, FRIEDRICH BLUHME, HENRY

BRADLEY, HERMANN BROSIEN, JAMES BRYCE, CODEX CAROLINUS,

CASSIODORUS, CHRONICLE OF MOISSIAC, ROBERT COMYN,

CORIPPUS, C. DU F. DU CANGE, S. A. DUNHAM,

JEAN VICTOR DURUY, ERCHANBERTUS,

EVAGRIUS OF EPIPHANEIA,

ERNST WILHELM FÖRSTEMANN, FREDEGARIUS SCHOLASTICUS, E. A. FREEMAN,

GABRIEL H. GAILLARD, GEORGIUS MONACHUS, HEINRICH GERDES, AUGUST

FRIEDRICH GFÖRER, GREGORY OF TOURS, JACOB GRIMM, ALBERT

GUELDENPENNING, HENRY HALLAM, JOSEPH VON HAMMER-PURGSTALL,

JEAN BARTHÉLEMY HAURÉAU, KARL

JOSEPH VON HEFELE, ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS,

HENRY H. HOWORTH,

JOHN OF EPHESUS, JULIAN, LAMBERT VON HERSFELD (or ASCHAFFENBURG), ERNEST

LAVISSE AND ALFRED RAMBAUD, CHARLES LECOINTE, LEO DIACONUS,

CHARLTON T. LEWIS, MARIE PAULINE DE LÉZARDIÈRE, LIBANIUS,

JULIUS LIPPERT, MALCHUS PHILADELPHUS, WILHELM

MARTENS, HENRI MARTIN, WOLFGANG MENZEL,

J. F. MICHAUD, MONK OF ST. GAUL, DAVID

MÜLLER, FRIEDRICH MÜLLER,

NICEPHORUS PATRIARCHA, NICETAS ACOMINATUS, OELSNER, GEORGIUS PACHYMERES,

R. PALLMANN, PANEGYRICI VETERES, PAULUS DIACONUS, WALTER C. PERRY,