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Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Newark: Associated University Presses, 1999) ISBN 0-87413-658-X. Craddock, Patricia. "Historical Discovery and Literary Invention in Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall'," Modern Philology 85:4 (May 1988), 569–587.
The Work of J.G.A. Pocock: Edward Gibbon section. Edward Gibbon page: Further reading section. The History of the Decline and Fall: Further Reading section. The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon. Roman Empire – List of Roman Emperors. Byzantine Empire – List of Byzantine Emperors.
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Edward Gibbon FRS (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ b ən /; 8 May 1737 [1] – 16 January 1794) was an English essayist, historian, and politician. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organized religion.
Edward Gibbon. General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West, from the Internet Medieval Sourcebook. Brief excerpts of Gibbon's theories . Gibbon, Edward (1906). "XX". In Bury, J.B. (ed.). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 3. Fred de Fau and Co. Gruman, Gerald J. (1960).
Low's edition of Edward Gibbon's Journal was published in 1929 and he abridged The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for publication in 1960. In 1937 his biography of Gibbon was published. [1]
The English historian Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) is known primarily as the author of the magisterial The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (6 vols., 1776–1789). Both the imposing length of and awesome erudition displayed in that work have understandably overshadowed his other literary achievements, many of which deserve to ...