Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on usages
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- PROLOGUE
- 1 Gibbon's first volume: the problem of the Antonine moment
- PART I THE FIRST DECLINE AND FALL: ANCIENT PERCEPTIONS
- PART II THE AMBIVALENCE AND SURVIVAL OF CHRISTIAN EMPIRE
- PART III THE HUMANIST CONSTRUCTION OF DECLINE AND FALL
- PART IV EXTENSIVE MONARCHY AND ROMAN HISTORY
- PART V REPUBLIC AND EMPIRE: THE ENLIGHTENED NARRATIVE
- PART VI GIBBON AND THE STRUCTURE OF DECLINE
- EPILOGUE
- Bibliography of works cited
- Index
Note on usages
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on usages
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- PROLOGUE
- 1 Gibbon's first volume: the problem of the Antonine moment
- PART I THE FIRST DECLINE AND FALL: ANCIENT PERCEPTIONS
- PART II THE AMBIVALENCE AND SURVIVAL OF CHRISTIAN EMPIRE
- PART III THE HUMANIST CONSTRUCTION OF DECLINE AND FALL
- PART IV EXTENSIVE MONARCHY AND ROMAN HISTORY
- PART V REPUBLIC AND EMPIRE: THE ENLIGHTENED NARRATIVE
- PART VI GIBBON AND THE STRUCTURE OF DECLINE
- EPILOGUE
- Bibliography of works cited
- Index
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- Barbarism and Religion , pp. xiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003
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