Barbarism and religion. Volume 1, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764 / J. G. A. Pocock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pocock, J. G. A. (John Greville Agard), 1924- author.

Series:

Barbarism and religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Gibbon, Edward.

Enlightenment--Great Britain.

Enlightenment.

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D--Historiography.

Rome.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 339 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Barbarism & Religion

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Barbarism and Religion' - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the title of an acclaimed 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 of ideas, challenging the notion of any one 'Enlightenment' and positing instead a plurality of enlightenments, of which the English was one. In this first volume, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, John Pocock follows Gibbon through his youthful exile in Switzerland and his criticisms of the Encyclopédie, and traces the growth of his historical interests down to the conception of the Decline and Fall itself.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on references, quotations and translations; Abbreviations; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Putney, Oxford and the question of English Enlightenment; CHAPTER 2 Lausanne and the Arminian Enlightenment; CHAPTER 3 The re-education of young Gibbon: method, unbelief and the turn towards history; CHAPTER 4 The Hampshire militia and the problems of modernity; CHAPTER 5 Study in the camp: erudition and the search for a narrative; CHAPTER 6 The politics of scholarship in French and English Enlightenment

CHAPTER 7 Erudition and Enlightenment in the Académie des Inscriptions; CHAPTER 8 D'Alembert's 'Discours préliminaire': the philosophe perception of history; CHAPTER 9 The 'Essai sur l'étude de la littérature': imagination, irony and history; CHAPTER 10 Paris and the gens de lettres: experience and recollection; CHAPTER 11 The return to Lausanne and the pursuit of erudition; CHAPTER 12 The journey to Rome and the transformation of intentions; EPILOGUE Gibbon and the rhythm that was different; References; ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BEFORE 1800; MODERN AND SECONDARY SOURCES; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786610432318

1-107-11595-7

1-280-43231-4

0-511-17296-6

0-511-04021-0

0-511-15190-X

0-511-30322-X

0-511-49066-6

0-511-05126-3

OCLC:

437063268