Synopses & Reviews
This series is intended to attract a new generation of readers to some of the greatest narrative history ever written. Each volume will include substantial extracts from a major work of history prefaced by a major new essay by a modern authority. Attractively designed, the series sets out to demonstrate the extraordinary tradition that exists of great history writing in the English language. The books are aimed at the intelligent general reader as well as students of history at all levels. In this volume is extracted the celebrated chapters 15 and 16 of Gibbon's Decline and Fall along with an extract from Gibbon's Vindication, in which he seeks to defend his interpretation of Christianity. Other titles in the series include: Macauley's History of England, Introduced by John BurrowJ.A.Froude's Mary Tudor, Introduced by Eamon DuffyW.H.Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico, Introduced by JH Elliott
Synopsis
Tom Holland writes an authoritative introduction to Gibbon and his masterwork, followed by extracts from The Decline and Fall which exemplify Gibbon's genius.
Synopsis
This series is intended to attract a new generation of readers to some of the greatest narrative history ever written. Each volume will include substantial extracts from a major work of history prefaced by a major new essay by a modern authority. Attractively designed, the series sets out to demonstrate the extraordinary tradition that exists of great history writing in the English language. The books are aimed at the intelligent general reader as well as students of history at all levels.
In this volume is extracted the celebrated chapters 15 and 16 of Gibbon's Decline and Fall along with an extract from Gibbon's Vindication, in which he seeks to defend his interpretation of Christianity.
Other titles in the series include:
Macauley's History of England, Introduced by John Burrow
J.A.Froude's Mary Tudor, Introduced by Eamon Duffy
W.H.Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico, Introduced by JH Elliott
Synopsis
Tom Holland writes an authoritative introduction to Gibbon and his masterwork, followed by extracts from The Decline and Fall which exemplify Gibbon's genius.
Synopsis
This book provides a fascinating introduction to the history writing of Edward Gibbon. Tom Holland carefully considers aspects of Gibbon's prose style as well as as the historical approach that underpins his writing and The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in particular. This essay is followed by chapters 15 and 16 of Gibbon's Decline and Fall along with a section from Gibbon's Vindication, all extracted to illustrate what Tom Holland discusses in the preceding pages. This book is an important text for all those interested in historiography and the writing of one of the great historians.
Table of Contents
Introduction by Tom Holland
1. Chapter 15 of Gibbon's Decline and Fall
2. Chapter 16 of the same
3.Gibbon's Vindication