The Empire Unpossess'd : An Essay on Gibbon's Decline and Fall

by Lionel Gossman

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10 0521234530

ISBN-13 9780521234535

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 29th, 1981

Print length 190 Pages

Weight 45 grams

Product Classification: Politics & government

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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.

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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