Barbarism and Religion: Volume 3, The First Decline and FallCambridge University Press, 27 ott 2005 - 544 pagine 'Barbarism and Religion' - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the title of a 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, challenging the notion of any one 'Enlightenment' and positing instead a plurality of enlightenments, of which the English was one. The first two volumes of Barbarism and Religion were warmly and widely reviewed, and won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society. In this third volume in the sequence, The First Decline and Fall, John Pocock offers an historical introduction to the first fourteen chapters of Gibbon's great work, recounting the end of the classical civilisation Gibbon and his readers knew so much better than the worlds that followed. |
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... principate 448 19 The Illyrian recovery and the new monarchy 464 EPILOGUE 20 The Constantinean moment Bibliography of works cited Index 489 501 516 Acknowledgements This volume bears no dedication like those to Franco Vill Contents.
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Sommario
I | 7 |
the Tacitean narrative | 17 |
Appian of Alexandria | 32 |
The construction of Christian empire | 65 |
the formation of a Christian | 77 |
Otto of Freising and the two cities | 101 |
The historiography of the translatio imperii | 127 |
from translatio to declinatio | 153 |
empire and monarchy | 239 |
and republican survivals | 258 |
the problem of arms in ancient | 276 |
European Enlightenment and the Machiavellian moment | 307 |
The Antonine moment 4 19 | 425 |
The Severi and the disintegration of the principate | 448 |
The Illyrian recovery and the new monarchy | 464 |
The Constantinean moment | 489 |
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