The Cambridge companion to Edward Gibbon / edited by Karen O'Brien, Brian Young. [electronic resourc...
The Cambridge companion to Edward Gibbon / edited by Karen O'Brien, Brian Young. [electronic resourc...
The Cambridge companion to Edward Gibbon / edited by Karen O'Brien, Brian Young. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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English
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1 online resource (xvi, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
An overview of The decline and fall of the Roman Empire / J.G.A. Pocock -- Gibbon's geographies / Robert Mayhew -- Gibbon and the city of Rome / Catharine Edwards -- Do Byzantine historians still read Gibbon? / Mark Whittow -- Gibbon among the barbarians / George Woudhuysen -- Gibbon and Enlightenme...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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England
Date Published
2018.
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Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in three instalments from 1776 to 1788, is widely regarded as the greatest work of history in the English language. Starting with the accession of the Roman Emperor Commodus in the late second century CE, Gibbon's work traverses thirteen centuries, encompassing the rise...
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The Cambridge companion to Edward Gibbon / edited by Karen O'Brien, Brian Young. [electronic resource]
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74VKVkeoyN3M
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ISBN
1-139-54729-1
1-108-63571-7
1-108-68711-3
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937.0072/02
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991024185514902626
