Memoirs of My Life and Writings. Edward Gibbons Intellectual Journey and the Making of The Decline and Fall
Par :Formats :
- Paiement en ligne :
- Livraison à domicile ou en point Mondial Relay indisponible
- Retrait Click and Collect en magasin gratuit
- Nombre de pages106
- PrésentationBroché
- Poids0.166 kg
- Dimensions14,8 cm × 21,0 cm × 0,8 cm
- ISBN978-2-322-61357-1
- EAN9782322613571
- Date de parution25/04/2025
- ÉditeurBooks on Demand
Résumé
The memoir reveals how Gibbons Swiss education and Roman epiphany at the Capitoline coalesced into a lifelong obsession with civilizational decay. He meticulously reconstructs his research methodology, from scouring Byzantine chronicles to defending his controversial treatment of early Christianity, while candidly addressing critics who accused him of undermining religious orthodoxy. Gibbons narrative oscillates between the grand his philosophical debates with Diderot and Hume and the intimate, including his thwarted romance and fraught relationship with his father.
The work stands as both a manifesto for empirical history and a meditation on how private obsessions fuel public legacies, essential reading for students of historiography and Enlightenment thought.