Barbarism and Religion: Volume 3, The First Decline and Fall

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Description: 'Barbarism and Religion'--Edward Gibbon's own phrase--is the title of a 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 eighteenth-century Europe. This is a major intervention from one of the world's leading historians, and has been very widely and favourably reviewed. In this, the third volume in the sequence, John Pocock offers an historical introduction to the first fourteen chapters of Gibbon's great work itself.

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Title: Barbarism and Religion: Volume 3, The First ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: new