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Memoirs of My Life and Writings is an account of the historian Edward Gibbon's life, compiled after his death by his friend Lord Sheffield from six fragmentary autobiographical works Gibbon wrote during his last years.
Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Memoirs of My Life and Writings is an account of the historian Edward Gibbon's life, compiled after his death by his friend Lord Sheffield from six fragmentary autobiographical works Gibbon wrote during his last years.
Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2006-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0141958626
Edward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left behind the unfinished drafts of his Memoirs, which were posthumously edited by his friend Lord Sheffield, and remain an astonishing portrait of a rich, full life. Recounting Gibbon's sickly childhood in London, his disappointment with an Oxford 'steeped in port and prejudice', his successful years in Lausanne, his first and only love affair and the monolithic achievement of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, he distils his genius for history into a remarkable gift for autobiography. Candid and detailed, these writings are filled with warmth and intellectual passion.
Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 1846
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Author : Karen O'Brien
Publisher :
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107035112
Provides an accessible overview of the achievement of Edward Gibbon (1737-94), one of the world's greatest historians.
Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,82 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780710069245
Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1625584202
Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th centuries.
Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1625584156
Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th centuries.
Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 26,79 MB
Release : 2015-12-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781347421888
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Author : Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521525053
This book examines Gibbon's interpretations of empire and the intellectual context in which he formulated them against a background of the eighteenth- and late twentieth-century knowledge of late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Gibbon's ideas of empire, his understanding of monarchy and the balance of power, his sources and working methods, the structure of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, his attitude towards the barbarians, the contrasting treatments of the eastern and western Empire, his appreciation of past civilizations and their material remains, his audience and their reactions - contemporary and Victorian - are considered in the light of the latest research on eighteenth-century intellectual history on the one hand and on late antiquity, Byzantium and the Middle Ages on the other. The book breaks new ground in taking the form of a dialogue between experts on the fields about which Gibbon himself wrote, and eighteenth-century intellectual historians.
Author : Charlotte Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0198704836
Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History offers a detailed examination of Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as a work of scholarship and of literature.