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The Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon
Artikel-Nr:
9781107625020
Veröffentl:
2018
Erscheinungsdatum:
31.05.2018
Seiten:
266
Autor:
Karen O’Brien
Gewicht:
390 g
Format:
229x152x15 mm
Serie:
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Provides an accessible overview of the achievement of Edward Gibbon (1737-94), one of the world's greatest historians.
Chronology; Introduction Karen O'Brien; 1. An overview of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire J. G. A. Pocock; 2. Gibbon's geographies Robert Mayhew; 3. Gibbon and the city of Rome Catharine Edwards; 4. Do Byzantine historians sill read Gibbon? Mark Whittow; 5. Gibbon among the Barbarians George Woudhuysen; 6. Gibbon and enlightenment history in eighteenth-century Britain Tim Stuart-Buttle; 7. Gibbon and republicanism Béla Kapossy and Richard Whatmore; 8. Gibbon and Catholicism B. W. Young; 9. Gibbon's Style in The Decline and Fall Fred Parker; 10. Gibbon's mind and libraries Robert Mankin; 11. The Memoirs and Character of the Historian Charlotte Roberts; 12. Afterword: a new Gibbon manuscript David Womersley.