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This definitive three-volume edition presents a complete and unmodernized text, the author's own comments and notes, and his famous Vindication. The third volume examines the enfeebled state of the Byzantine Empire and the spread of Islam. Later sections consider the fierce clash of religions in the Crusades and, to conclude this great work, Gibbon offers an overview of the medieval papacy and a history of Rome up until the seventeenth century.
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