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looks like your right I have an abridged version. random thoughts Send a noteboard - 06/03/2010 05:56:17 AM
That would explain why I didn't see the anti-Byzantine parts you were referring to. My version was abridged to focus only on the eastern empire. It also doesn't have any of the footnotes. Could also explain why it seemed to make strange jumps that didn't really make sense. I guess that will teach me to read the forward from now on. Someone gave it to me as a gift and I never even thought to check and see if it was complete.

If I get myself the Kindle I was planning to get for my birthday it looks like I can get the complete set for only a buck. I doubt I will bother finishing reading the abridged version, what would be the point?
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So...I only finished half of Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Tom - 05/03/2010 02:11:08 AM 649 Views
Read on, grashopper Camilla - 05/03/2010 09:54:48 AM 516 Views
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I found it hard to finish random thoughts - 05/03/2010 02:10:19 PM 477 Views
The emperors tend to run together far before the middle Tom - 05/03/2010 02:34:55 PM 491 Views
My copy is one single book and I can't remember which volume I stopped on random thoughts - 05/03/2010 06:06:29 PM 456 Views
Ah...you probably have the abridged version. Tom - 05/03/2010 08:01:57 PM 541 Views
looks like your right I have an abridged version. random thoughts - 06/03/2010 05:56:17 AM 434 Views
I think you mean "Western", not "Eastern". Tom - 06/03/2010 04:09:46 PM 451 Views
Finish it. It's an important piece of literature. The Shrike - 05/03/2010 02:22:08 PM 502 Views
I own Norwich's History of Venice (Folio Society edition) but haven't read it yet. Tom - 05/03/2010 02:30:55 PM 498 Views
The Dutch Republic takes a while to get into. Too much back story. Far far too long for The Shrike - 05/03/2010 04:10:20 PM 615 Views
Those recommendations sound very interesting. Tom - 05/03/2010 04:51:09 PM 455 Views
And now I've ordered both those books. Tom - 06/03/2010 10:19:01 PM 461 Views
I haven't even come across the title. The Shrike - 09/03/2010 02:03:26 PM 457 Views
Finish it snoopcester - 05/03/2010 04:47:15 PM 457 Views
It is well written. Of course, it's hard to stay excited about it. Tom - 05/03/2010 08:12:21 PM 439 Views
I'm through two volumes of it. mapthis - 05/03/2010 08:36:13 PM 605 Views
The problem with that approach... Tom - 07/03/2010 12:45:20 AM 469 Views
I need to get into Byzantium. I'm hoping to do a senior thesis on Byzantine diplomacy. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/03/2010 06:42:49 AM 206 Views
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