The Rhetoric of Numbers in Gibbon's History

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British
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Author: F. P. Lock ISBN: 9781611494174
Publisher: University of Delaware Press Publication: September 28, 2012
Imprint: University of Delaware Press Language: English
Author: F. P. Lock
ISBN: 9781611494174
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Publication: September 28, 2012
Imprint: University of Delaware Press
Language: English

Gibbon aspired to combine the critical analysis of the eighteenth-century philosophe with the older traditions of the humanist and scholarly historian. His different uses of numbers, to inform and to persuade, illustrate his remarkable fusion of these approaches. This book, the first to be devoted to a historian’s use of numbers, shows how carefully Gibbon interrogated and deployed the numerical evidence in his sources to create a more accurate historical narrative; to demonstrate his own reliability and candor as a historian; and to convince readers of the validity of his interpretations of characters and events.

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Gibbon aspired to combine the critical analysis of the eighteenth-century philosophe with the older traditions of the humanist and scholarly historian. His different uses of numbers, to inform and to persuade, illustrate his remarkable fusion of these approaches. This book, the first to be devoted to a historian’s use of numbers, shows how carefully Gibbon interrogated and deployed the numerical evidence in his sources to create a more accurate historical narrative; to demonstrate his own reliability and candor as a historian; and to convince readers of the validity of his interpretations of characters and events.

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