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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | J. G. A. POCOCK | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-21T07:45:35Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-03-21T07:45:35Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2003 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-511-07072-3 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/56260 | - |
dc.description | In this third volume in the sequence, The First Decline and Fall, John Pocock offers a historical introduction to the first fourteen chapters of Gibbon’s great work. He argues that this first Decline and Fall is a phenomenon of specifically ‘ancient’ history in which Christianity played no part, and whose problems were those of liberty and empire. The first Decline and Fall is that of ancient, imperial and polytheist Rome, and Gibbon’s first fourteen chapters recount the end of classical civilisation, a civilisation with which Gibbon and his readers were vastly more familiar than with its late-antique successor. Only towards the end of this present volume do the Christians appear, and Gibbon’s history begins to move towards its dominant themes. | - |
dc.language | en | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | en_US |
dc.subject | Barbarism | en_US |
dc.title | Barbarism and Religion Volume three | en_US |
dc.type | Book | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | Religion |
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