The transformation of The decline and fall of the Roman Empire / David Womersley
- Bib ID:
- 1840316
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- Author:
- Womersley, David
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- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988
- ix, 318 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0521350360
- Series:
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- Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 1.
- Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 1
- Full contents:
- Machine derived contents note: Part 1. The historiographic milieu: 1. Montesquieu's Considerations; 2. Hume; Part II. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: 3. Introduction; Volume I - 1776: 4. Style; 5. Augustus; 6. Tacitus; 7. Narrative; 8. Chapters XV and XVI; Volumes II and III - 1781; 9. 'The more rational ignorance of the man'; 10. Julian the Apostate; 11. Ammianus Marcellinus; 12. 'The nice and secret springs of action'; Volumes IV, V and VI - 1788; 13. 'A dead uniformity of abject vices'; 14. Structure; 15. 'Not a system, but a series'; 16. 'A keener glance' 17. Realising the past; 18. 'The wide and various prospect of desolation'.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 307-312.
- Subject:
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- Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794. History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire
- Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D -- Historiography
- Byzantine Empire -- Historiography
- Roman Empire Historiography Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794. Decline and fall of the Roman Empire
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