Edward Gibbon and Empire

Book Overview

This book examines Gibbon's interpretations of empire and the intellectual context in which he formulated them against a background of the eighteenth- and late twentieth-century knowledge of late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Gibbon's ideas of empire, his understanding of monarchy and the balance of power, his sources and working methods, the structure of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, his attitude towards the barbarians,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521525055
• ISBN13: 9780521525053
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"