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Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Book by Peter Cosgrove; University of Delaware Press, 1999

Subjects:

Byzantine Empire--Historiography, Gibbon, Edward--1737-1794--Criticism And Interpretation, Gibbon, Edward--1737-1794--History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, Historians In Literature, Intertextuality, Literature And History, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D--Historiography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Intertextuality in Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Peter Cosgrove...intertextuality in Gibbons Decline and fall of the Roman Empire / Peter Cosgrove...comes from Ed- ward Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, one of the...
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Edward Gibbon: His View of Life and Conception of History

Book by Per Fuglum; Akademisk forlag, 1953

Subjects:

Gibbon, Edward--1737-1794

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'; to bring...sacrifice. Here lies Gibbon's greatness. There...he is certainly no Roman. Gibbons extends only rarely...the frontier of the Roman provinces'. On one point Gibbon is very positive...
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Edward Gibbon Wakefield: Builder of the British Commonwealth

Book by Paul Bloomfield; Longman, 1961

Subjects:

Great Britain--Colonies--Australia, Great Britain--Colonies--New Zealand, Wakefield, Edward Gibbon--1796-1862

Collections: History, Entire Library

Edward Gibbon Wakefield By the Same Author UNCOMMON...FEW IMAGINARY WORLDS etc . EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD Builder of the British...page EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD IN 1850 64...
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The End of Roman Britain

Book by Michael E. Jones; Cornell University Press, 1996

Subjects:

Anglo-Saxons, Great Britain--History--Invasions, Great Britain--History--Roman Period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D, Romans--Great Britain--History, Rome--History--Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th Centuries

Collections: History, Entire Library

...last bastion of Gibbons and Voltaires hoary vision of a Roman world overwhelmed...Romano-Britons? But why should Roman Britain differ from...Germanic invaders? As Gibbon remarked with typically...overview see Hills, "Roman Britain to Saxon England." 16 Gibbon, Decline and Fall...
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Roman Law in European History

Book by Peter Stein; Cambridge University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Law--Europe--Roman Influences, Roman Law--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

Roman law has had a huge impact on European legal and political thought. Peter Stein, one of the world's leading legal historians, explains in this masterly short study how this came to be. He assesses the impact of Roman law in the ancient world, and its continued unifying influence throughout ...
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Roman law has had a huge impact on European legal and political thought. Peter Stein, one of the world's leading legal historians, explains in this masterly short study how this came to be. He assesses the impact of Roman law in the ancient world, and its continued unifying influence throughout medieval and modern Europe. Roman Law in European History is unparalleled in depth, lucidity and authority, and should prove of enormous utility for teachers and students (at all levels) of legal history, comparative law and European Studies.
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The Influence of Switzerland on the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon

Journal article by Jeremy Black; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 33, 2003

Subjects:

The Influence of Switzerland on the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon (Book)

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...to examine the influence of Switzerland on the composition and assumptions of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, arguing that Gibbons knowledge of the Swiss Confederation frequently influenced the political and cultural assumptions of the...
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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Journal article by Antonio Santosuosso; The Historian, Vol. 69, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Santosuosso The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome...negative impact of Christianity, as Gibbon maintained, nor, as other historians...seem at first. The root of the Roman problem was the arrival of the...the now porous borders of the Roman Empire inflicting a terrible...
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The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire

Journal article by Timothy J. Lomperis; The Historian, Vol. 69, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...presented in the writings of Edward Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations, both published in 1776. Gibbon addressed the political dynamic of the founding of Roman power on a polytheistic value base...
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The Ironic Detachment of Edward Gibbon

Journal article by Harry Trosman; International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 90, 2009

Subjects:

Memory

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Harry Trosman Edward Gibbon, historian of the Roman Empire, began The...the decline of the Roman monarchy" (Gibbon, 1966, p. 147). Although...enjoy the enthusiasm Gibbon experienced. Freuds...longings mediated by the Roman Catholic nursemaid...
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Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1

Journal article by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe; The Explicator, Vol. 53, 1995

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

Gibbons HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, Volume 1 In...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Gibbon presents the following...NOTES 1. Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , 8 vols. (London...

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Decline and Fall of Roman Empire

Magazine article by Stephen Goode; Insight on the News, Vol. 14, August 10, 1998

Subjects:

Gibbon, Edward--Works, Liberty--Appreciation

Collections: Entire Library

...kingdoms and made Roman citizenship unique. Gibbon saw ardent public...decent reverence," Gibbon says of this time. "The Roman Senate appeared to...he applied to the Roman historian Tacitus, whose history Gibbon said was an "immortal...
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How Immigration Destroyed Rome. Oxford Historian Peter Heather Has Reexamined the Fall of Rome. His New Book, the Fall of the Roman Empire, Holds Many Lessons for Today

Magazine article by Dennis Behreandt; The New American, Vol. 22, February 6, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...of Rome, Edward Gibbon, in his magisterial...and Fall of the Roman Empire, concluded...This new religion, Gibbon argued, caused Roman leaders to drop...different from the Roman situation at the...Christianity. Since Gibbon wrote his great...
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The Fall of the West: The Slow Death of the Roman Superpower

Magazine article by Tom Holland; History Today, Vol. 59, July 2009

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Fall of the West: The Slow Death of the Roman Superpower (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...upsurge of interest in what Edward Gibbon described as the greatest, perhaps...the decline and fall of the Roman Empire? Adrian Goldsworthy...nostalgia for the palmiest days of Roman greatness. The age of the Antonines serves him as it also served Gibbon: as the index of what has been...
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Rotting from the Top: As the Roman Empire Declined Its Leaders Became Interested More in Personal Survival Than Good Governance. Sound Familiar? Adrian Goldsworthy Draws Comparisons with Current Crises

Magazine article by Adrian Goldsworthy; History Today, Vol. 59, May 2009

Subjects:

Financial crises--Comparative analysis, Public administration--Comparative analysis, Roman Empire, 30 BC-476 AD--Economic aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...ago, the historian Edward Gibbon sought to apportion blame for the fall of the Roman Empire. It is a problem each...first two centuries AD, the Roman Empire was stable, sophisticated...fall of Rome, but the later Roman Empire did have financial...
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For the Serious Student

Magazine article by Steve Bonta; The New American, Vol. 21, February 7, 2005

Subjects:

Gibbon, Edward, Roman culture--History

Collections: Entire Library

...no discussion of Roman sources would be...venerable Edward Gibbon, whose massive...and Fall of the Roman Empire remains...the authority of Gibbon is often overdrawn...of course, but Gibbon attributes the fall of the Roman Empire largely...

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Animal Magic: Gibbon Draws Crowds

Newspaper article by Martin Banks; Birmingham Evening Mail (England), January 8, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...facts about the animal. For instance, did you know that: The Gibbons originate from Asia and live on a diet of grapes, bananas and...reaching the A470(T), right along a lane past Pont Rufeinig (or Roman Bridge) Station and sharp right at Gorddinan to the farm at...
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Our Roman Hero Was Really a Loser

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 14, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...in 180AD. Reviewing all the Roman emperors since Augustus, the...of the best. Historian Edward Gibbon famously said the human race...successful as a philosopher-king, and Gibbons picture of a golden age is an...seems to have been the first Roman emperor to have a thing about...
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When Barbarians Were Not

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), October 23, 2009

Subjects:

Roman Empire, 30 BC-476 AD

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Rome. The Ur-source of this view is Edward Gibbon, who began to publish The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in 1776, perhaps coincidentally but...and Spain effectively preserved the Western Roman Empire. Most notably, in the early sixth...
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`Gladiator' Goes in for the Kill, but Misses

Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, May 5, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," Edward Gibbon summarized the characters of the...from degrading insinuations. Gibbon had Marcus Aurelius in mind as...Anthony Manns "The Fall of the Roman Empire" in 1964. Curiously, Mr...
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Two Prime Ministers Is One Too Many

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 13, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...insipid Lucius Verus, to share the Roman Empire. Historians are unanimous in condemnation. Edward Gibbon was especially withering. "By...honours of the purple," declared Gibbon, "Marcus had discharged a debt...joint-emperorships of the later Roman period so often led to conspiracy...

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Gibbon, Edward

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

GIBBON, EDWARD 1737 94...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. His childhood...his conversion to Roman Catholicism. His father...to be married, but Gibbons father refused consent...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (6 vol., 1776...some harsh criticism. Gibbon himself was assured...
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Byzantine Empire

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...succession to the imperial title. Bibliography The classic, though biased, work on Byzantine history is Gibbon s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. More recent standard works are those of J. B. Bury, C. Diehl, A. A. Vasilev, G. Ostrogorsky...
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Rome , City, Italy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the only comprehensive work. Other great Roman historians were Julius Caesar, Tacitus...The works of Mommsen and Edward Gibbon are monumental. General works on ancient...F. Abbott, History and Description of Roman Political Institutions (3d ed. 1911, repr...
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History

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Francesco Guicciardini followed in the steps of Greek and Roman historians, although their work was original and immediate...general patterns. From England came the masterful work of Edward Gibbon , combining erudition with the philosophical concerns of the...
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Lausanne

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...court of appeal. Originally a Celtic settlement, it became a Roman military camp called Lousanna. An episcopal see since the...social life in the 18th cent., Lausanne was the residence of Gibbon, Rousseau, and Voltaire. Lausanne has the famous Gothic Cathedral...

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