Books That Matter: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The Making of Gibbon the Historian

Educational Mar 3, 2017 29 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

Available on Prime Video, The Great Courses Signature Collection

S1 E2: Follow Edward Gibbon's intellectual development: his childhood obsession with reading, his military service, his disappointed love, his social circles, his personal politics, and his life as a "gentleman scholar of leisure." Your primary source for this biographical study: fragments from Gibbon's posthumously published Memoirs.

Educational Mar 3, 2017 29 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

TV-PG

Information

Released: 2017
Run Time: 29 min
Rated: TV-PG

Languages

Original Audio: English
Audio: English (AAC), English (United States)
Subtitles: English (CC)

Accessibility

: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.