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I don't remember what they were, but Mary Beard had some seemingly credible criticisms or just updates to Gibbon. I got through a significant portion of the de

I don't remember what they were, but Mary Beard had some seemingly credible criticisms or just updates to Gibbon. I got through a significant portion of the decline and fall but got bored somewhere after Justinian as the decline and fall of my interest in the Roman empire begins somewhere around the state conversion to Christianity.

DrPhish 3y ago
> Mary Beard had some seemingly credible criticisms or just updates to Gibbon I had a look at her back when I was reading, but also just now revisited some articles comparing them, and I couldn't find anything substantial that didn't boil down to a dislike of his style, or disagreement over approach. I really would like to update any incorrect facts that I might have picked up when reading Gibbon, so something concrete would be much appreciated! I'm not too worried about having picked up his conclusions, since I've come to my own based on the description of events and supplementing with a fair amount of other treatments (mostly "The Learning Company" stuff, for better or for worse)