Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / / ed. by G. W. Bowersock, Stephen R. Graubard, John Clive.

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• MitwirkendeR: BOWERSOCK, G . W .,; Brower, Reuben A.,; Brown, Peter,; Brownley, Martine Watson,; Burke, Peter,; Chadwick, Owen,; Clive, John,; Furet, François,; Giarrizzo, Giuseppe,; Gilmore, Myron,; Graubard, Stephen R.,; Haskell, Francis,; Jordan, David P.,; Lewis, Bernard,; MANUEL, FRANK E.,; Momigliano, Arnaldo,; Pocock, J . G. A.,; Runciman, Steven,; Shackleton, Robert,; Starobinski, Jean,
• HerausgeberIn: Bowersock, G. W.,; Clive, John,; Graubard, Stephen R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (257 p.) :; 1 Frontispiz

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Bibliographical Note
• Edward Gibbon: The Historian of the Roman Empire
• Gibbon: The Formation of Mind and Character
• Gibbon on Civil War and Rebellion in the Decline of the Roman Empire
• Gibbon's Views on Culture and Society in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries
• Gibbon and Byzantium
• Gibbon on Muhammad
• Gibbon from an Italian Point of View
• Tradition and Experience: The Idea of Decline from Bruni to Gibbon
• Between Machiavelli and Hume: Gibbon as Civic Humanist and Philosophical Historian
• Edward Gibbon: Contraria Sunt Complementa
• From the Decline of Erudition to the Decline of Nations: Gibbon's Response to French Thought
• Civilization and Barbarism in Gibbon's History
• Edward Gibbon: Historien-Philosophe
• Gibbon's Humor
• Gibbon and the History of Art
• The Impact of French Literature on Gibbon
• Gibbon and the Church Historians
• Toward the Decline and Fall: Gibbon's Other Historical Interests
• With Gibbon in Puerto Rico
• Index