...Nerva, Trajan, Adrian, and the two Antoniues, until the succession of Commodus, AD 180. Gibbon says, If a man were called to fix the period in the history...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Conunodus. Bishop Newton, certainly a pleasing commentator, concludes, that John was banished under...

...three phases of Roman history: the triumphant second century (famously described by Edward Gibbon as 'the period in the history of the world during which...of the human race was most happy and prosperous'); the so-called 'crisis' of the third century when military, economic, and social turmoil is represented...

...besonders während der Zeit von 96 n. Chr. bis 180 die goldene Zeit der Menschheitsgeschichte: "If a man were called to fix the period in the history...absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom" (11776; Ausg. 1840, 31; eh. 3). Das mittelalterliche Denken war in hohem Maße kulturklassizistisch...

...tolerant rule of Nerva (96-8) and Trajan (98-117), the start of the period of which Gibbon wrote that if a man were called to fix the period in the history...the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus (Bk. I, ch. 3). Human satisfaction is never, of course, unalloyed, and Gibbon went on to surmise that...

...millennium' we have so far encountered. It was to be of high significance to Gibbon; his famous sentence If a man were called to fix the period in the history...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus,14" follows word for word Robertson's sentence about the period 'most calamitous and afflicted',149...

...peace and stability for the Roman empire. The eighteenth-century historian Edward Gibbon called it 'the period in the history of the world during which...condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous' (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch. 3). The third century, by contrast, was a period of considerable...

...misfortunes of mankind. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788) 1974:Vol. 1, chap. 3, 84. 4 If a man were called to fix the period in the history...during which the condition of the human race was most happpy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian...

...accession of Nerva in 98 CE to the death of Marcus Aurelius in 180 cE, the age that Gibbon famously called 'the period in the history of the world during which...of the human race was most happy and prosperous'. The borders were secure, the economy flourrshing, and the emperors just and mild. For once, the Roman...

...emperor named and adopted his successor. Of the century that followed, the historian Gibbon wrote: If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition o\ the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would without hesitation, name that which elapsed...

...the second century CE, "the period in the history of the world," says the historian Edward Gibbon, "during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous."22 A simplification, no doubt, but Rome's problems a generation or two later would make...