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Edward Gibbon

British historian who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — the most celebrated historical work in the English language — tracing the fall of Rome from its height to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, arguing that Christianity and barbarism jointly destroyed classical civilization.

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