Title: Edward Gibbon : bicentenary essays /
Authors: Womersley, David.; Burrow, J. W. 1935-2009; Pocock, J. G. A. 1924-
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Gibbon, Edward, Influence.; Gibbon, Edward,; Gibbon, Edward,; Historians Great Britain Biography; Scholars Great Britain Biography; Europe Intellectual life; Rome History Historiography.; Byzantine Empire Historiography.
Contents: Gibbon and Giannone / John Robertson -- Gibbon and the Asiatic barbarians : notes on the French sources of The decline and fall / Rolando Minuti -- Establishing the order of time and place : rational geography, French erudition and the emplacement of history in Gibbon's mind / Guido Abbattista -- My ecclesiastical history : Gibbon between Hume and Raynal / Girolamo Imbruglia -- Gibbon and the decline and growth of the Club / Pat Rogers -- Gibbon's timeless verity : nature and neo-classicism in the late Enlightenment / Peter Ghosh -- Natural freedom in The decline and fall / Edoardo Tortarolo -- Gibbon, Swift and irony / Claude Rawson -- Gibbon, irony, and faith in Gibbon's Decline and fall / David Wootton -- Gibbon's prospects : rhetoric, fame and the closing chapters of The decline and fall / Karen O'Brien -- A disorderly squadron? A fresh look at clerical responses to The decline and fall / Nigel Aston -- Une marionnette infidèle : the fashioning of Edward Gibbon's reputation as the English Voltaire / Paul Turnbull -- Gibbon, Newman and the religious accuracy of the historian / Brian Young -- Gibbon's feelings / W.B. Carnochan -- Gibbon's Memoirs : autobiography in time of revolution / David Womersley -- Gibbon's last project / Hugh Trevor-Roper.