edward gibbon frs (sejarah kemunduran dan keruntuhan kekaisaran romawi, yang diterbitkan dalam enam volume antara 1776 dan 1788 dan dikenal karena kualitas dan ironi prosanya, penggunaan sumber-sumber primer, dan kritik terbukanya terhadap agama terorganisir.the most recent and also the first critical edition, in three volumes, is that of david womersley.
for commentary on gibbon's irony and insistence on primary sources whenever available, see womersley, "introduction".
while the larger part of gibbon's caustic view of christianity is declared within the text of chapters xv and xvi, gibbon rarely neglects to note its baleful influence throughout the remaining volumes of the decline and fall.
kehidupan awal: 17371752
edward gibbon lahir pada 1737, sebagai putra dari edward dan judith gibbon di lime grove, kota putney, surrey.
ia memiliki enam saudara: lima saudara dan satu saudari, yang semunya meninggal saat bayi.
kakeknya, yang juga bernama edward, kehilangan seluruh asetnya sebagai hasil dari runtuhnya pasar saham south sea bubble pada 1720, namun kemudian kembali meraih kekayaan, sehingga ayah gibbon mewarisi sebuah estate substansial.d. m. low, edward gibbon.
17371794 (london: chatto &
windus, 1937), p. 7.
sebagian besar artikel ini, termasuk kutipan, diadaptasi dari entri stephen tentang edward gibbon dalam kamus biografi nasional.teks asli:
beer, gavin de.
gibbon and his world.
london: thames and hudson, 1968.
hb: isbn 0-670-28981-7.
bowersock, g. w., et al. eds.
edward gibbon and the decline and fall of the roman empire.
cambridge, ma: harvard university press, 1977.
craddock, patricia b. young edward gibbon: gentleman of letters.
baltimore, md: johns hopkins university press, 1982.
hb: isbn 0-8018-2714-0.
gibbon and his roman empire.
urbana, il: university of illinois press, 1971.
keynes, geoffrey, ed.
the library of edward gibbon.
godalming, england: st.
paul's bibliographies, 1940, repr. 1980.
"gibbon on muhammad".
daedalus 105:3 (summer 1976), 89101.
low, d. m. edward gibbon 17371794.
london: chatto and windus, 1937.
"gibbon's contributions to historical method".
historia 2 (1954), 450463.
reprinted in momigliano, studies in historiography (new york: harper &
row, 1966; garland pubs., 1985), 4055.
pb: isbn 0-8240-6372-4.
porter, roger j. "gibbon's autobiography: filling up the silent vacancy".
eighteenth-century studies 8:1 (autumn 1974), 126.
stephen, leslie, "gibbon's autobiography" in studies of a biographer, vol. 1 (1898)
swain, j. w. edward gibbon the historian.
new york: st. martin's press, 1966.
turnbull, paul. "the supposed infidelity of edward gibbon", historical journal 5 (1982), 2341.
white, jr. lynn, ed.
the transformation of the roman world: gibbon's problem after two centuries.
berkeley: university of california press, 1966.
hb: isbn 0-520-01334-4.
berghahn, c.-f., and t. kinzel, eds., edward gibbon im deutschen sprachraum.
bausteine einer rezeptionsgeschichte.
heidelberg: universittsverlag winter, 2015.
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stanford: stanford university press, 1988.
burrow, j. w. gibbon (past masters).
oxford: oxford university press, 1985.
hb: isbn 0-19-287553-1.
pb: isbn 0-19-287552-3.
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stanford: stanford university press, 1987.
hb: isbn 0-8047-1363-4.
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boston: g.k. hall, 1987.
pb: isbn 0-8161-8217-5.
a comprehensive listing of secondary literature through 1985.
see also her supplement covering the period through 1997.
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journal of roman studies 85 (1995), 148164.
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ghosh, peter r. "gibbon's timeless verity: nature and neo-classicism in the late enlightenment," in womersley, burrow, pocock, eds.
edward gibbon: bicentenary essays.
ghosh, peter r. "gibbon, edward 17371794 british historian of rome and universal historian," in kelly boyd, ed.
encyclopedia of historians and historical writing (chicago: fitzroy dearborn, 1999), 461463.
levine, joseph m., "edward gibbon and the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns," in levine, humanism and history: origins of modern english historiography (ithaca, ny: cornell university press, 1987).
levine, joseph m. "truth and method in gibbon's historiography," in levine, the autonomy of history: truth and method from erasmus to gibbon (chicago: chicago university press, 1999).
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edward gibbon and empire.
cambridge: cambridge university press, 1997.
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oxford: voltaire foundation, 2002.
pocock, j. g. a. barbarism and religion, 4 vols.: vol. 1, the enlightenments of edward gibbon, 17371764, 1999 [hb: isbn 0-521-63345-1]; vol. 2, narratives of civil government, 1999 [hb: isbn 0-521-64002-4]; vol. 3, the first decline and fall, 2003 [pb: isbn 0-521-82445-1]; vol. 4, barbarians, savages and empires, 2005 [pb: isbn 0-521-72101-6].
all cambridge univ. press.
porter, roy. gibbon: making history.
new york: st. martin's press, 1989, hb: isbn 0-312-02728-1.
turnbull, paul. "'une marionnette infidele': the fashioning of edward gibbon's reputation as the english voltaire," in womersley, burrow, pocock, eds.
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cambridge: cambridge university press, 1988.
hb: isbn 0-521-35036-0.
womersley, david p., john burrow, and j.g.a.
edward gibbon: bicentenary essays.
oxford: voltaire foundation, 1997.
hb: isbn 0-7294-0552-4.
womersley, david p. gibbon and the watchmen of the holy city: the historian and his reputation, 17761815.
oxford: oxford university press, 2002.
pb: isbn 0-19-818733-5.