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Has anyone read Edward Gibbon?
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07-10-2006, 02:52 PM
Quote:I think too that Gibbon is one of first "modern" historians. The book is definitely worth reading.
Yes, I agree! Of course scholarship has made a great forward in the nineteenth century (cf. Gibbon's use of the Historia Augusta), but in general, Gibbon's grand theory about the importance of freedom as a control to monarchy is still something to consider.
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Has anyone read Edward Gibbon? - by Virilis - 07-09-2006, 06:21 AM
Re: Has anyone read Edward Gibbon? - by Martin - 07-09-2006, 06:48 AM
Re: Has anyone read Edward Gibbon? - by Virilis - 07-09-2006, 12:24 PM
Re: Has anyone read Edward Gibbon? - by Tarbicus - 07-09-2006, 01:26 PM
Re: Has anyone read Edward Gibbon? - by Virilis - 07-09-2006, 02:11 PM
Re: Has anyone read Edward Gibbon? - by Virilis - 07-09-2006, 04:27 PM
rre - by Johnny Shumate - 07-10-2006, 03:12 AM
Re: Has anyone read Edward Gibbon? - by rkmvca1 - 07-10-2006, 03:52 AM
Re: Has anyone read Edward Gibbon? - by Virilis - 07-10-2006, 06:29 AM
Re: Has anyone read Edward Gibbon? - by Martin - 07-10-2006, 12:38 PM
Re: Has anyone read Edward Gibbon? - by Jona Lendering - 07-10-2006, 02:52 PM
Re: Has anyone read Edward Gibbon? - by Tarbicus - 07-11-2006, 08:40 AM
Re: Has anyone read Edward Gibbon? - by rkmvca1 - 07-23-2006, 05:08 PM

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