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Barbarism and religion. Volume I, The enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764 /
This is the first in a sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Edward Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of Europe. This is a major intervention from one of the world's leading historians of ideas.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Barbarism and religion.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on references, quotations and translations; Abbreviations; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Putney, Oxford and the question of English Enlightenment; CHAPTER 2 Lausanne and the Arminian Enlightenment; CHAPTER 3 The re-education of young Gibbon: method, unbelief and the turn towards history; CHAPTER 4 The Hampshire militia and the problems of modernity; CHAPTER 5 Study in the camp: erudition and the search for a narrative; CHAPTER 6 The politics of scholarship in French and English Enlightenment
- CHAPTER 7 Erudition and Enlightenment in the Académie des InscriptionsCHAPTER 8 D'Alembert's 'Discours préliminaire': the philosophe perception of history; CHAPTER 9 The 'Essai sur l'étude de la littérature': imagination, irony and history; CHAPTER 10 Paris and the gens de lettres: experience and recollection; CHAPTER 11 The return to Lausanne and the pursuit of erudition; CHAPTER 12 The journey to Rome and the transformation of intentions; EPILOGUE Gibbon and the rhythm that was different; References; ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BEFORE 1800; MODERN AND SECONDARY SOURCES; Index