Disc 1. The greatness of Gibbon's Decline and fall --
The making of Gibbon the Historian --
The Empire at its beginning --
The theory and practice of history --
The Golden Age of the Antonines --
The hidden poison begins to work --
disc 2: Diocletian and the triumph of Constantine --
Enlightenment skepticism --
The rise of Christianity --
Constantine and Athanasius --
Julian and the return to Paganism --
Barbarian advances and Theodosius --
disc 3: East and West divided --
Theodoric and Justinian --
The breakup of the Empire --
The Byzantine Empire and Charlemagne --
disc 4: The Byzantine Empire in the 10th century --
Genghis Khan and Tamerlane --
The fall of Constantinople --
The end of Gibbon's work --
Decline and fall in moden perspective.
