num_pages: 790
description: "Barbarism and Religion"--Edward Gibbon's own phrase--is the title of an acclaimed 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 Europe. This is a major intervention from one of the world's leading historians, challenging the idea of a single "Enlightenment" with Paris at its center: through Gibbon a plurality of enlightenments in fact emerge, of which the English, an ecclesiastical as well as a secular phenomenon, was one.
language: English
title: Barbarism and Religion, 2 Vols
titlecomplete: Barbarism and Religion, 2 Vols
characters: Edward Gibbon
genres: Religion, Politics, British Literature, Philosophy, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 17
series: Barbarism and Religion
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History
publisher: Cambridge University Press