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It is hard to find benign examples of imperialism

27 June 2020

9:00 AM

27 June 2020

9:00 AM

I have been making the best of lockdown by reading properly, from start to finish, Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a seven-volume edition that is less daunting than it sounds, when you consider how addictive his rolling prose is. I have just reached the point, near the end of the great work, where Gibbon describes the sack of Constantinople by the armies of the Fourth Crusade in 1204.

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Professor David Abulafia is Emeritus Professor of Mediterranean History at the University of Cambridge.

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