Barbarism and Religion: Volume 1, the Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764 Hardcover

J G A Pocock
Cambridge University Press
9780521633451
0-521-63345-1

In this first volume, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, John Pocock follows Gibbon through his youthful exile in Switzerland and his criticisms of the Encyclopdie and traces the growth of his historical.

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interests down to the conception of the Decline and Fall itself.