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That's a good thought, Gordon. I wonder, though, at the extent to which people were using the word 'fall' for the Roman Empire (as opposed to the city itself, esp. when sacked in 410) before Gibbon. The professorship was established in 1724. The first volume of Gibbon's _The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_ appeared in 1776. Best again, John
On Friday, January 18, 2008, at 5:47 pm, Gordon Plumb wrote:
>
> John Dillon wrote:
> What troubles me about the announcement from Cambridge, in whose
> drafting the
> Convenor of the Advisory Committee, Professor John Hatcher, Chairman
> of the
> Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, will presumably have had
> some
> role, refers to "the fall of the Roman Empire"
>
>
> I wonder, John, if the original description of the terms of this
> Professorship used that term, and it has simply been repeated from
> generation to
> generation. I don't have access to the University statutes or whatever
> to check my
> surmise- but I wouldn't mind betting that that might be the case.
>
> Gordon Plumb
>
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