Edward Gibbon and empire / edited by Rosamond McKitterick and Roland Quinault
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- 1385929
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- New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997
- xvi, 351 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0521497248 (hardback)
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- Introduction / Rosamond McKitterick and Roland Quinault
- 1. Gibbon and the later Roman Empire: causes and circumstances / John Matthews
- 2. Gibbon and Justinian / Averil Cameron
- 3. Gibbon and the middle period of the Byzantine Empire / James Howard-Johnston
- 4. Byzantine soldiers, missionaries and diplomacy under Gibbon's eyes / Jonathan Shepard
- 5. Gibbon and the later Byzantine Empires / Anthony Bryer
- 6. Gibbon and the Merovingians / Ian Wood
- 7. Gibbon, Hodgkin, and the invaders of Italy / T. S. Brown
- 8. Gibbon and the early Middle Ages in eighteenth-century Europe / Rosamond McKitterick
- 9. Gibbon and the 'Watchmen of the Holy City': revision and religion in the Decline and fall / David Womersley
- 10. Gibbon and international relations / Jeremy Black
- 11. Gibbon's Roman Empire as a universal monarchy: the Decline and fall and the imperial idea in early modern Europe / John Robertson
- 12. The conception of Gibbon's History / Peter Ghosh.
- 13. Winston Churchill and Gibbon / Roland Quinault
- Epilogue / J. W. Burrow, Rosamond McKitterick and Roland Quinault.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 -- Views on Rome
- Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794. History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire
- Historians -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Scholars -- Great Britain -- Attitudes
- Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. -- Historiography
- Byzantine Empire -- Historiography
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
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