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    Vindication in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

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    In ten pages this paper focuses upon the infamous Chapters 15 and 16 of an historical text that was once strongly condemned to the point that Gibbon felt compared to pen a Vindication to address the negative reactions. One source is cited in the bibliography.

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    in all of them. Also, although I believe you when you say this work is well known, unfortunately, I was unable to locate a copy. I could not find an  electronic copy online, nor was there a copy at the local university library. I thought there was a copy when I spoke to the home office last night, but unfortunately,  that copy could not be found when I checked at the library today. Therefore, the following report is based on what I could glean from another source. I  hope it is sufficient to give you insight on writing your own report based on this book - since - as I am sure you are well aware that these  model papers are to be used as templates for aiding students in constructing their own work. Gibbon/Vindication Research Compiled By  - November, 2001 properly! When the first volume of Edward Gibbons classic history The Decline  and Fall of the Roman Empire was published in 1776, it caused an immediate and heated controversy. Specifically the last two chapter of volume 1, chapters 15 and 16, were  damned by critics as a "cowardly, furtive attack on divine truths and simple faith" (Craddock 60). Gibbons ostensible purpose in chapter 15 was to examine the natural and social  - the human - causes of the spread of the Christian faith; in chapter 16, Gibbon attempted to reduce to historical dimensions the previous mythologized account of the early Christian  martyrs (Craddock 60). But also the two chapters served a common purpose, which was to treat the Christian church as a "phenomenon of general history," and not as a special 

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