Title Barbarism and religion. Volume three, The first decline and fall / J.G.A. Pocock

Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 527 pages) Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on usages; Abbreviations; Introduction; Prologue; PART I The First Decline and Fall: Ancient perceptions; PART II The ambivalence and survival of Christian empire; PART III The humanist construction of Decline and Fall; PART IV Extensive monarchy and Roman history; PART V Republic and empire: the Enlightened narrative; PART VI Gibbon and the structure of decline; Epilogue; Bibliography of works cited; Index Summary 'Barbarism and Religion' - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the title of a sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of eighteenth-century Europe. This is a major intervention from one of the world's leading historians, challenging the notion of any one 'Enlightenment' and positing instead a plurality of enlightenments, of which the English was one. The first two volumes of Barbarism and Religion were warmly and widely reviewed, and won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society. In this third volume in the sequence, The First Decline and Fall, John Pocock offers an historical introduction to the first fourteen chapters of Gibbon's great work, recounting the end of the classical civilisation Gibbon and his readers knew so much better than the worlds that followed Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-515) and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794. History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. SUBJECT History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon, Edward) fast Subject Enlightenment -- Great Britain HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome. Enlightenment Historiography Intellectual life SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056855 Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. -- Historiography Subject Great Britain Rome (Empire) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780511062261 0511062265 9780511202759 051120275X

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