• Edward Gibbon is a British rationalist historian and scholar. - He is best known as the author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–88), a continuous narrative from the 2nd century CE to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
Notable Works: - A Vindication of Some Passages in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Chapters of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - An Essay on the Study of Literature - Critical Observations on the Sixth Book of the Aeneid - Memoirs - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire