Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History
Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History

Author: Charlotte Roberts

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2014-07-17

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0191014907

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Edward Gibbon's presentation of character in both the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and in his posthumously published Memoirs demonstrates a prevailing interest in the values of transcendent heroism and individual liberty, but also an insistent awareness of the dangers these values pose to coherence and narrative order. In this study, Charlotte Roberts demonstrates how these dynamics also inform the 'character' of the Decline and Fall: in which ironic difference confronts enervating uniformity; oddity counters specious lucidity; and revision combats repetition. Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History explores the Decline and Fall as a work of scholarship and of literature, tracing both its expansive outline and its expressive details. A close examination of each of the three instalments of Gibbon's history reveals an intimate relationship between the style of Gibbon's narrative and the overall shape of his historiographical composition. The constant interplay between style and substance, or between the particular details of composition and the larger patterns of argument and narrative, informs every aspect of Gibbon's work: from his reception of established and innovative historiographical conventions to the expression of his narrative voice. Through a combination of close reading and larger literary and scholarly analysis, Charlotte Roberts conveys a sense of the Decline and Fall as a work more complex and conflicted, in its tone and structure, than has been appreciated by previous scholars, without losing sight of the grand contours of Gibbon's superlative achievement.

The Transformation of the Roman World
The Transformation of the Roman World

Author: Lynn White

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0520318900

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

Christianity and Confucianism
Christianity and Confucianism

Author: Christopher Hancock

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-12-10

Total Pages: 697

ISBN-13: 0567657698

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Christianity and Confucianism: Culture, Faith and Politics, sets comparative textual analysis against the backcloth of 2000 years of cultural, political, and religious interaction between China and the West. As the world responds to China's rise and China positions herself for global engagement, this major new study reawakens and revises an ancient conversation. As a generous introduction to biblical Christianity and the Confucian Classics, Christianity and Confucianism tells a remarkable story of mutual formation and cultural indebtedness. East and West are shown to have shaped the mind, heart, culture, philosophy and politics of the other - and far more, perhaps, than either knows or would want to admit. Christopher Hancock has provided a rich and stimulating resource for scholars and students, diplomats and social scientists, devotees of culture and those who pursue wisdom and peace today.

Style in History
Style in History

Author: Peter Gay

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780393305586

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In this original and lucid guide to the proper reading of Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, and Burckhardt--great historians who were also great stylists--Peter Gay demonstrates that style is an invaluable clue to the historian's insight.

The Company of the Creative
The Company of the Creative

Author: David L. Larsen

Publisher: Kregel Academic

Published:

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9780825494321

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Great works and authors of the world are introduced and reviewed artistically, intellectually, and theologically. Persons discussed include Plato, Milton, Dickens, Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, and C. S. Lewis.

Edward Gibbon the Historian
Edward Gibbon the Historian

Author: Joseph Ward Swain

Publisher: London ; Melbourne [etc.] : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's P

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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"Edward Gibbon (27 April 1737? 16 January 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. The Decline and Fall is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organised religion."--Wikipedia.

Historicization
Historicization

Author: Glenn W. Most

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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Historisierung die Uberzeugung, dass die Phanomene, die eine Wissenschaft untersucht, wesentlich durch ihre spezifische Geschichtlichkeit bestimmt sind und dass daher Pflicht und Ziel der Wissenschaft in der Erforschung dieser Geschichtlichkeit bestehen ist nicht so sehr eine besondere Praxis oder Disziplin innerhalb der Philologie, sondern eine methodologische Voraussetzung, die sich in vielen verschiedenen Disziplinen und in einer Reihe verschiedener wissenschaftlicher Praktiken manifestiert. Insofern stellt sich das Thema dieses Bandes im Vergleich zu denjenigen der fruheren Bande dieser Reihe als eine Erweiterung und Vertiefung dar. Von der Historisierung wird meistens historisierend behauptet, sie sei eine spezifisch europaische Entwicklung und habe sich insbesondere im Verlaufe des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts herausgebildet. Ziel dieses Bandes ist es, die Rolle der Historisierung in verschiedenen Disziplinen vor allem wahrend der letzten zwei Jahrhunderte exemplarisch zu untersuchen, um solche Behauptungen kritisch zu prufen und um damit zu einem differenzierteren und praziseren Verstandnis des Gesamtphanomens der Historisierung zu gelangen. Dabei wird die Rolle der Historisierung in solchen Disziplinen wie Philologie, Religionswissenschaft, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Kunstgeschichte, Geschichte, Archaologie und Anthropologie untersucht. Die meisten Beitrage des Bandes gehen zuruck auf das von Glenn W. Most im Sommer 1998 veranstaltete 4. Heidelberger Kolloquium zu historischen und methodologischen Fragen der Philologie.