Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon
- Edward Gibbon
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Note on the Text
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1 An Overview of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- 2 Gibbon’s Geographies
- 3 Gibbon and the City of Rome
- 4 Do Byzantine Historians Still Read Gibbon?
- 5 Gibbon among the Barbarians
- 6 Gibbon and Enlightenment History in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 7 Gibbon and Republicanism
- 8 Gibbon and Catholicism
- 9 Gibbon’s Style in The Decline and Fall
- 10 Gibbon’s Mind and Libraries
- 11 The Memoirs and Character of the Historian
- 12 Afterword
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
4 - Do Byzantine Historians Still Read Gibbon?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2018
- The Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon
- Edward Gibbon
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Note on the Text
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1 An Overview of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- 2 Gibbon’s Geographies
- 3 Gibbon and the City of Rome
- 4 Do Byzantine Historians Still Read Gibbon?
- 5 Gibbon among the Barbarians
- 6 Gibbon and Enlightenment History in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 7 Gibbon and Republicanism
- 8 Gibbon and Catholicism
- 9 Gibbon’s Style in The Decline and Fall
- 10 Gibbon’s Mind and Libraries
- 11 The Memoirs and Character of the Historian
- 12 Afterword
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
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- The Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon , pp. 78 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018