Karen O'Brien, Brian Young

The Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Edward Gibbon's monumental The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is of enduring interest to literary scholars, classicists and historians of the ancient world. This Companion provides an accessible account of Decline and Fall, along with Gibbon's autobiographical writings: an indispensable guide to the great historian and his work.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781107625020
• ISBN-10: 1107625025
• Artikelnr.: 50446897

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology
Introduction Karen O'Brien
1. An overview of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire J. G. A. Pocock
2. Gibbon's geographies Robert Mayhew
3. Gibbon and the city of Rome Catharine Edwards
4. Do Byzantine historians sill read Gibbon? Mark Whittow
5. Gibbon among the Barbarians George Woudhuysen
6. Gibbon and enlightenment history in eighteenth-century Britain Tim Stuart-Buttle
7. Gibbon and republicanism Béla Kapossy and Richard Whatmore
8. Gibbon and Catholicism B. W. Young
9. Gibbon's Style in The Decline and Fall Fred Parker
10. Gibbon's mind and libraries Robert Mankin
11. The Memoirs and Character of the Historian Charlotte Roberts
12. Afterword: a new Gibbon manuscript David Womersley.