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Edward Gibbon and Empire (Hardcover, New)
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Edward Gibbon and Empire (Hardcover, New)
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This book examines Gibbon's interpretations of empire and the
intellectual context in which he formulated them against a
background of the eighteenth- and late twentieth-century knowledge
of late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Gibbon's ideas of empire,
his understanding of monarchy and the balance of power, his sources
and working methods, the structure of the History of the Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire, his attitude towards the barbarians,
the contrasting treatments of the eastern and western Empire, his
appreciation of past civilizations and their material remains, his
audience and their reactions - contemporary and Victorian - are
considered in the light of the latest research on
eighteenth-century intellectual history on the one hand and on late
antiquity, Byzantium and the Middle Ages on the other. The book
breaks new ground in taking the form of a dialogue between experts
on the fields about which Gibbon himself wrote, and
eighteenth-century intellectual historians.
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