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Edward Gibbon and Empire

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Edward Gibbon and Empire
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Rosamond McKitterick
Edited by Roland Quinault
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:368
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreWorld history - BCE to c 500 CE
ISBN/Barcode 9780521525053
ClassificationsDewey:937.06092
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 18 July 2002
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Reviews

'The essays in this handsome volume ... are uniformly learned and polished ...' Early Medieval Europe