J G A Pocock: 2 books
by J. G. A. Pocock
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
This fifth volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence on Barbarism and Religion turns to the controversy caused by Edward Gibbon's treatment of the early Christian church. Examining this controversy in unprecedented depth, Pocock challenges the assumption that Gibbon wrote with the intention of destroying...
by J. G. A. Pocock
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
This sixth and final volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence of works on Barbarism and Religion examines Volumes II and III of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, carrying Gibbon's narrative to the end of empire in the west. It makes two general assertions: first, that this is...