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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.
The Work of J.G.A. Pocock: Edward Gibbon section. Roberts, Charlotte. Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History. 2014 Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-870483-6; Trevor-Roper, H.R. "Gibbon and the Publication of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776–1976," Journal of Law and Economics 19:3 (Oct. 1976), 489–505. Womersley, David.
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.
Edward Gibbon, by Henry Walton, 1773. Memoirs of My Life and Writings (1796) is an account of the historian Edward Gibbon's life, compiled after his death by his friend Lord Sheffield from six fragmentary autobiographical works Gibbon wrote during his last years. Lord Sheffield's editing has been praised for its ingenuity and taste, but blamed ...
Shortly following Gibbon's death, his good friend and literary executor, John Lord Sheffield undertook to edit and in 1796 published the first (of three) edition(s) of the Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon (MW) [1] in order that the reading public have an opportunity to gain a broader insight into the historian and his overall body of work.
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) was an English historian and politician. Edward Gibbon may also refer to: Edward Gibbon (died 1770) (1707–1770), British Member of Parliament
John Greville Agard Pocock ONZM (/ ˈ p oʊ k ɒ k /; 7 March 1924 – 12 December 2023) was a New Zealand historian of political thought.He was especially known for his studies of republicanism in the early modern period (mostly in Europe, Britain, and America), his work on the history of English common law, his treatment of Edward Gibbon and other Enlightenment historians, and, in historical ...
He writes that our "popular understanding" of these centuries "depends largely on the picture of barbarian invaders that Edward Gibbon presented more than two hundred years ago," and that this view has been accepted "by many who have read and admire Gibbon's work."