Barbarism and Religion Vol. 1

The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764

Bibliographic Data

ID20512423
AuthorsJ G A Pocock
Year2009
Publication date2009-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueBarbarism and Religion Vol. 1 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511490668
ISBN9780511490668
Open LibraryOL34443079M
LanguageEN
Citations received142

'Barbarism and Religion' - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the title of an acclaimed sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of eighteenth-century Europe. This is a major intervention from one of the world's leading historians of ideas, challenging the notion of any one 'Enlightenment' and positing instead a plurality of enlightenments, of which the English was one. In this first volume, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, John Pocock follows Gibbon through his youthful exile in Switzerland and his criticisms of the Encyclopédie, and traces the growth of his historical interests down to the conception of the Decline and Fall itself.