Bill Giannakopoulos·Nov 4, 2025A Rebuttal to Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireWhy Christianity Was the Empire’s Final Medicine, Not Its DiseaseA response icon3A response icon3
Frank Breslin·Feb 15, 2025Don’t aspire to a position “above your station.”Sutor ne supra crepidam. A cobbler should stick to his last (Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 35. 36. 85). Your father was a shoemaker, so…
InAge of AwarenessbyFrank Breslin·Nov 14, 20243 Theories about how the Middle Ages Got StartedSutor ne supra crepidam. A cobbler should stick to his last (Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 35. 36. 85). Your father was a shoemaker, so…
Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley·Aug 15, 2024Religions and State: Equally True, Equally False and Equally UsefulHistorian and author Edward Gibbon argues in the first volume of his trilogy of historical works, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire…A response icon3A response icon3
Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley·Aug 9, 2024The Triumph of European Civilisation According to the Historian Edward GibbonEdward Gibbon is an 18th-century English historian who published his most iconic work, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, from 1776…A response icon1A response icon1
Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley·Jul 9, 2024Edward Gibbon’s View of EmpiresFor people reading this who have never heard the name Edward Gibbon.A response icon3A response icon3
Frank Breslin·Jun 5, 2024The Romans on Law: Part 1In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion…A response icon1A response icon1
Nick Nielsen·May 10, 2024Edward Gibbon and the Civilizational PerspectivePart of a Series on the Philosophy of History
InAge of AwarenessbyFrank Breslin·Mar 24, 2024The Romans on Survival: Part 2 Different Views of HistoryDon’t aspire to a position “above your station.”
Frank Breslin·Feb 27, 2024“The Noble Lie” Theory (An Exercise in Critical Thinking)“The Noble Lie,” known also by its Latin name of “Pia Fraus,” was another theory students considered in their study of the Bible. In…
