Edward Gibbon And Empire

by Rosamond McKitterick

2021-01-08 22:34:47

To understand Gibbon''s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire properly it is necessary to have knowledge of his historiographical and philosophical context. Gibbon is considered here not just for what he reveals of eighteenth-century in... Read more
To understand Gibbon''s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire properly it is necessary to have knowledge of his historiographical and philosophical context. Gibbon is considered here not just for what he reveals of eighteenth-century intellectual attitudes, but for his forceful interpretation of the period. Leading experts in the field about which Gibbon himself wrote enter into dialogue with historians of the eighteenth century. New light is thereby thrown not only on Gibbon''s text, but also on the degree to which he can be regarded as a trustworthy guide to late antiquity and the Middle Ages in the late twentieth century. Less

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File size9.02 X 5.98 X 0.94 in
Print pages368
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date November 13, 1996
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521497244

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