The transformation of The decline and fall of the Roman Empire - Womersley, David (Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988)
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'.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 307-312.
Keywords: Gibbon, Edward, -- 1737-1794.; 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