The Empire Unpossess'd: An Essay on Gibbon's Decline and Fall
ISBN-13:
9780521234535
ISBN-10:
0521234530
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Lionel Gossman
Publication date:
1981
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Hardcover
190 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780521234535
ISBN-10:
0521234530
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Lionel Gossman
Publication date:
1981
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Hardcover
190 pages
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The Empire Unpossess'd: An Essay on Gibbon's Decline and Fall (ISBN-13: 9780521234535 and ISBN-10: 0521234530), written by authors
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One of a small number of historical texts that have become classics, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire demands and deserves the kind of attention readers habitually grant to the classics of fictional literature. In Lionel Gossman's thematic and rhetorical study of Gibbon's masterpiece, the foundation of authority is seen as the historian's chief concern. The central problem of the work - the foundation of political authority - also appears in another form, Gossman contends, as a central problem of the work - that of the authority of the historical text itself.
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