Project Gutenberg 2014-03-26 Public domain in the USA. 78 Gibbon, Edward 1737 1794 Bertolotti, Davide 1784 1860 Storia della decadenza e rovina dell'impero romano, volume 03 Produced by Claudio Paganelli, Carlo Traverso, Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Storia della decadenza e rovina dell'impero romano, volume 03" by Edward Gibbon is a historical account written in the late 18th century. The work examines the decline and eventual fall of the Roman Empire, focusing particularly on the treatment of Christians during this tumultuous period. Gibbon's detailed narrative reveals the complex interaction between emerging Christian beliefs and the established Roman religious and political systems. The opening of this volume delves into the Roman government's conduct towards Christians from the reign of Nero to that of Constantine. Gibbon posits that, despite the moral rectitude and relative innocence of early Christians, they were subject to severe persecution. He explores the motivations behind this intolerance, suggesting that the Christians’ departure from traditional Roman religious practices and their claim to exclusive truth provoked governmental retaliation. The narrative outlines specific persecutions under various emperors, notably the brutal consequences faced by many Christians, who were often scapegoated for societal calamities, revealing the tensions between religious diversity and state control in ancient Rome. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/45217/45217-h/images/cover.jpg it Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527 DG Text IT Storia Browsing: History - European Browsing: History - General 985431 985440 2024-09-19T04:43:17.938374 2023-09-19T15:57:25.010192 text/html text/html 963676 2014-03-25T17:18:34 text/html; charset=utf-8 464274 2014-03-25T17:18:34 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 495822 2024-09-19T04:43:31.331304 application/epub+zip 510987 2024-09-19T04:43:19.917412 application/epub+zip 453116 2024-09-19T04:43:18.917340 application/epub+zip 789348 2024-09-19T04:43:39.485218 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 726407 2024-09-19T04:43:30.245286 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 668612 2022-09-20T16:03:12.323869 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 848704 2024-09-19T04:43:16.147394 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 848527 2014-03-25T17:18:30 text/plain; charset=utf-8 320269 2014-03-25T17:18:34 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 19055 2024-09-19T04:43:39.635212 application/rdf+xml 16150 2024-09-19T04:43:19.078371 image/jpeg 2169 2024-09-19T04:43:18.998372 image/jpeg 466943 2024-09-19T04:43:18.023329 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog it.wikipedia en.wikipedia it.wikipedia