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Edward Gibbon : bicentenary essays
- Title
- Edward Gibbon : bicentenary essays / edited by David Womersley ; with the assistance of John Burrow and John Pocock.
- Publication
- Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 1997.
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- Description
- xii, 429 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, 0435-2866 ; 355
- Subjects
- Historians > Great Britain > Biography
- Europe > Intellectual life > 18th century
- Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 > History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire
- Scholars > Great Britain > Biography
- Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 > Influence
- Byzantine Empire > Historiography
- Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D > Historiography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Gibbon and Giannone / John Robertson -- Gibbon and the Asiatic barbarians : notes on the French sources of The decline and fall / Rolando Minuti -- Establishing the order of time and place : rational geography, French erudition and the emplacement of history in Gibbon's mind / Guido Abbattista -- My ecclesiastical history : Gibbon between Hume and Raynal / Girolamo Imbruglia -- Gibbon and the decline and growth of the Club / Pat Rogers -- Gibbon's timeless verity : nature and neo-classicism in the late Enlightenment / Peter Ghosh -- Natural freedom in The decline and fall / Edoardo Tortarolo -- Gibbon, Swift and irony / Claude Rawson -- Gibbon, irony, and faith in Gibbon's Decline and fall / David Wootton -- Gibbon's prospects : rhetoric, fame and the closing chapters of The decline and fall / Karen O'Brien -- A disorderly squadron? A fresh look at clerical responses to The decline and fall / Nigel Aston -- Une marionnette infidèle : the fashioning of Edward Gibbon's reputation as the English Voltaire / Paul Turnbull -- Gibbon, Newman and the religious accuracy of the historian / Brian Young -- Gibbon's feelings / W. B. Carnochan -- Gibbon's Memoirs : autobiography in time of revolution / David Womersley -- Gibbon's last project / Hugh Trevor-Roper.
- Call Number
- L-10 1352 v. 355
- ISBN
- 0729405524
- LCCN
- 98122240
- OCLC
- 38188168
- Title
- Edward Gibbon : bicentenary essays / edited by David Womersley ; with the assistance of John Burrow and John Pocock.
- Imprint
- Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 1997.
- Series
- Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, 0435-2866 ; 355
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Womersley, David.Burrow, J. W. (John Wyon), 1935-Pocock, J. G. A. (John Greville Agard), 1924-
- Research Call Number
- L-10 1352 v. 355