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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Pelikan, Jaroslav, 1923-2006. Excellent empire. San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1987 (OCoLC)577342027 Online version: Pelikan, Jaroslav, 1923-2006. Excellent empire. San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1987 (OCoLC)607918612 |
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| Named Person: | Edward Gibbon; Edward Gibbon |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jaroslav Pelikan |
| ISBN: | 0062546368 9780062546364 |
| OCLC Number: | 16925287 |
| Description: | xiii, 133 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The fall of Rome as historical paradigm -- The social triumph of barbarism and religion -- History as divine apocalypse -- The register of human follies, crimes, and misfortunes -- The founding of the Christian empire -- The inevitable effect of immoderate greatness -- The terrestrial glory of an excellent empire -- The inestimable gifts of Roman civilization. |
| Series Title: | Rauschenbusch lectures, new ser., 1. |
| Responsibility: | Jaroslav Pelikán. |
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- Christliche Literatur.
- Christentum.
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