The rhetoric of numbers in Gibbon's History / F.P. Lock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lock, F. P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794. History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.

Gibbon, Edward.

Numbers in literature.

Literature and history.

Symbolism of numbers in literature.

Rome--History--Empire, 284-476--Historiography.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

History.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

x, 213 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, [2012]

Summary:

Edward Gibbon aspired to combine the critical analysis of the eighteenth-century philosophe with the older traditions of the humanist and scholarly historian. His different uses of numbers, to inform and to persuade, illustrate his remarkable fusion of these characters. This book, the first to be devoted to a historians shows how carefully Gibbon interrogated and deployed the numerical evidence in his sources: to create a more accurate historical narrative; to demonstrate his own reliability and candor as a historian; and to convince readers of die validity of his interpretations of characters and events. Book jacket.

Contents:

Numbers

Time

Place

Population

War

Religion

Money

Books.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611494167

1611494168

9781611494174

1611494176

OCLC:

792886195