description: This major intervention from one of the world's leading historians, challenges the notion of any one 'Enlightenment' and posits 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 the third volume in the sequence, John Pocock presents a historical introduction to the first fourteen chapters of Gibbon's great work, recounting the end of the classical civilization Gibbon and his readers knew so much better than the worlds that followed.
language: English
title: Barbarism and Religion, Vol 3: The First Decline and Fall
titlecomplete: Barbarism and Religion, Vol 3: The First Decline and Fall
genres: British Literature, History
ratings_count: 8
series: Barbarism and Religion
publisher: Cambridge University Press