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On the death of Edward Gibbon (1737-94), his unpublished papers were left to his friend John Baker Holroyd, first earl of Sheffield, who published them in two volumes in 1796. Gibbon had written six manuscript accounts of his own life, and, according to Sheffield, had always intended to publish his autobiography in his lifetime. The memoir as edited by Sheffield begins with Gibbon's family history, and taking in his education, travels, and career as a historian, finishes with his anxiety over the future of Europe in 1788. Sheffield then continues the story until Gibbon's death through his correspondence, providing a linking narrative, and this, together with 210 other letters to and from Gibbon, takes up Volume 1. His great work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is also reissued (in the 1896-1900 edition by J. B. Bury) in the Cambridge Library Collection.

Rome --- History. --- Gibbon, Edward, --- Books and reading. --- Gibbon, Eduard

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Historiography --- Historians --- History --- Biography. --- -Historiography --- -Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Historiographers --- Scholars --- Biography --- -Authorship --- Criticism --- Gibbon, Edward --- Byzantine Empire --- -Rome --- -Historiography. --- -Biography --- -Gibbon, Edward --- Gibbon, Edward, --- Gibbon, Eduard --- Rome --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia --- Historiography. --- Historiography - Great Britain - History - 18th century. --- Historians - Great Britain - Biography.

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Gibbon, Edward --- Gibbon, Edward, --- Historians --- Scholars --- Biography --- -Scholars --- -Historiographers --- Persons --- Learning and scholarship --- -Influence --- Byzantine Empire --- -Europe --- Rome --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Historiography --- Intellectual life --- -History --- -Historiography. --- -Biography --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia --- Gibbon, Eduard --- Influence. --- Europe --- Historiography. --- History --- Criticism and interpretation --- Historians - Great Britain - Biography --- Scholars - Great Britain - Biography --- Gibbon (edward), historien britannique, 1737-1794

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This book examines Gibbon's interpretations of empire and the intellectual context in which he formulated them against a background of the eighteenth- and late twentieth-century knowledge of late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Gibbon's ideas of empire, his understanding of monarchy and the balance of power, his sources and working methods, the structure of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, his attitude towards the barbarians, the contrasting treatments of the eastern and western Empire, his appreciation of past civilizations and their material remains, his audience and their reactions - contemporary and Victorian - are considered in the light of the latest research on eighteenth-century intellectual history on the one hand and on late antiquity, Byzantium and the Middle Ages on the other. The book breaks new ground in taking the form of a dialogue between experts on the fields about which Gibbon himself wrote, and eighteenth-century intellectual historians.

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