Barbarism and religion. Volume five, Religion : the first triumph / J. G. A. Pocock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pocock, J. G. A., author.

Series:

Barbarism and religion ; v. 5

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 (xxi, 419 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Barbarism and religion. Volume 5, Religion : the first triumph

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Summary:

This fifth volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence on Barbarism and Religion turns to the controversy caused by Edward Gibbon's treatment of the early Christian church. Examining this controversy in unprecedented depth, Pocock challenges the assumption that Gibbon wrote with the intention of destroying belief in the Christian revelation, and questions our understanding of the character of 'enlightenment'. Reconsidering the genesis, inception and reception of these crucial chapters of Decline and Fall, Pocock explores the response of Gibbon's critics, affirming that his reputation as an unbeliever was established before his history of the Church had been written. The magnitude of Barbarism and Religion is already apparent. Religion: The First Triumph will be read not just as a remarkable analysis of the making of Decline and Fall, but also as a comment on the collision of belief and disbelief, a subject as pertinent now as it was to Gibbon's eighteenth-century readers.

Contents:

pt. 1. Gibbon's orthodox sources

pt. 2. The sources of Protestant enlightenment

pt. 3. The two chapters explored

pt. 4. Controversy and continuation.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-85171-5

1-107-21653-2

0-511-91895-X

0-511-91518-7

0-511-91339-7

0-511-91699-X

9780511778438

OCLC:

700691133