Barbarism and religion. Volume three, The first decline and fall / J. G. A. Pocock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

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 (xiii, 527 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Barbarism and religion. Volume 3, The first decline and fall

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Barbarism and Religion' - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the title of a 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, challenging the notion of any one 'Enlightenment' and positing instead a plurality of enlightenments, of which the English was one. The first two volumes of Barbarism and Religion were warmly and widely reviewed, and won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society. In this third volume in the sequence, The First Decline and Fall, John Pocock offers an historical introduction to the first fourteen chapters of Gibbon's great work, recounting the end of the classical civilisation Gibbon and his readers knew so much better than the worlds that followed.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on usages; Abbreviations; Introduction; Prologue; PART I The First Decline and Fall: Ancient perceptions; PART II The ambivalence and survival of Christian empire; PART III The humanist construction of Decline and Fall; PART IV Extensive monarchy and Roman history; PART V Republic and empire: the Enlightened narrative; PART VI Gibbon and the structure of decline; Epilogue; Bibliography of works cited; Index

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.es.

ISBN:

1-107-13733-0

1-280-43666-2

9786610436668

0-511-06226-5

0-511-17855-7

0-511-20275-X

0-511-30577-X

0-511-49067-4

0-511-07072-1

OCLC:

171135878